The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two
centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed from
the Shetland Islands to Rupert's Land, finally reaching York
Factory, where he awaited his assignment. Company of Adventurers
describes the early, lusty history of the HBC and the years of
Cowie's service, when manufactured goods were driving out the
demand for furs and buffalo hides. It contains rare information
about the Assiniboin and Plains Crees Indians during the period
before their confinement to reservations.
Alive to the historical and ethnographic value of his writing,
Cowie tells about his tenure as a clerk (later manager) at Fort
Qu'Appelle in southern Saskatchewan, the colorful personalities who
served with him, the wide-ranging fur brigades, remote outposts,
and the Company's relations with Indian tribes. He was the first
white man known to have set foot within the Swift Current District
when in 1868 he hunted buffalo there. His dealings with the Metis
during the Red River Rebellion placed him where history was being
made.
In an introduction to this Bison Book edition, David Reed Miller
discusses how Cowie fitted into a great commercial enterprise and
how he became a victim of unpleasant circumstances that forced his
retirement in 1891.
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