A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant

I may reflect here that about this part of my nature, this great fondness for women which has followed me through life, that it has brought me very close to trouble at times, but I always got out of it without any serious consequences. ~Johnny GrantJohnny Grant experienced and wrote about many historical events in the Canada–US northwest. He was born at Fort Edmonton in 1833 and died within sight of the same fort in 1907. In the intervening seven decades, Grant had some twenty-eight children by at least six different women and operated as a fur trader and rancher across most of the northwestern plains. He was instrumental in early ranching efforts in Montana and played a pivotal role in the Riel Resistance of 1869–1870. Published in its entirety for the first time, with a perceptive introduction by Gerhard Ens, Grant’s memoir is an indispensable primary source for the shelves of fur trade and M tis historians and a delight for the reader who enjoys an authentic story of a bygone era.Born and raised in Manitoba, Gerhard Ens is Associate Professor of History and Classics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He has spent his professional career researching and writing about the fur trade, the M tis, and First Nations communities in Canada. In recent years he has also worked as a consultant and testified as an expert witness in various M tis and First Nations land claims and treaty rights court cases.Grant, John Francis is the author of 'A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant', published 2008 under ISBN 9780888644916 and ISBN 0888644914.