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  • There are many accounts of voyageurs licensed coureur des bois fur traders in 17th and 18th century and other frontier explorers like Daniel Boone, performing various surgeries on themselves, setting bones and so on.

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  • “There is at least one coureur de bois in every family,” he wrote.51

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • No coureur de bois was more expert in forest lore than were the Jesuit Fathers; and the records made by these soldiers of the Cross,—explicit and detailed, while familiar in tone,—are of the highest scientific value', often of considerable literary interest.

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  • “There is at least one coureur de bois in every family,” he wrote.51

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Coming early to the shores of Nova Scotia 1611, nearly a decade before the landing of the Plymouth Pilgrims, and eventually spreading throughout the broad expanse of New France, ever close upon the track of the adventurous coureur de bois, they met the American savage before contact with civilization had seriously affected him.

    Archive 2008-06-22 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Coming early to the shores of Nova Scotia 1611, nearly a decade before the landing of the Plymouth Pilgrims, and eventually spreading throughout the broad expanse of New France, ever close upon the track of the adventurous coureur de bois, they met the American savage before contact with civilization had seriously affected him.

    Jesuit relations: de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • A coureur du bois – an individual who engaged in the fur trade without permission from the French authorities – Aco was also adept at Indian languages.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • No coureur de bois was more expert in forest lore than were the Jesuit Fathers; and the records made by these soldiers of the Cross,—explicit and detailed, while familiar in tone,—are of the highest scientific value', often of considerable literary interest.

    Jesuit relations: de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Or the second when she was thirteen and a coureur des bois who was setting bear traps in the Nova Scotia woods caught her instead, and forced himself on her on a winter day so cold her thirteen-year-old screams seemed to hang visible in the frozen air, then left her to die.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

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