Excerpt from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Vol. 55: November, 1902 April, 1903 Latterly the word adventurer has fallen in such evil repute it may scarcely be applied to living actors. But using it in the old-time sense of militant hero, what cavalier of gold braid and Spurs could be more of an adventurer than young Donald Smith, who traded in the desolate wastes of Labrador, spending seventeen years in the hardest field of the fur company, tramping on snow shoes, half the width of a continent, camping where night overtook him under blanketing of snow drifts, who rose. Step by step, from trader on the east coast to commissioner on the west? And this Donald Smith became Lord Strathcona. The Governor of the Hud son's Bay Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.