The coureurs de bois and other fur traders formed an important link between the savage and the civilized life of the country.
The French Canadians numbered sixty-five thousand altogether, exclusive of the fur traders and coureurs de bois.
Reginald adopted his counsel, and the sturdy guide, accompanied by one of the coureurs des bois, set out upon his mission, the result of which will appear in the following chapter.
When La Salle determined to spend the winter at Peoria Lake, he sent Hennepin forward with two coureurs de bois, to explore the upper waters of the Mississippi.
Reduced to the last extremity, the authorities of New France had ordered her fur traders, coureurs de bois and all, to hurry down to the settlements on the St. Lawrence, and aid in protecting them against the English.
No longer is it the refuge of squalid Indian tribes; no longer is it a center of the fur trade, with gayly clothed coureurs de bois, with traders and their dusky brides, with rollicking voyageurs taking no heed of the morrow.
But this time the officers of the colony punished them for being coureurs des bois, and confiscated most of their valuable furs, which meant the loss of nearly all the property they possessed.
These men, whom an oppressive monopoly could not keep down, were the most venturesome explorers in all this vast region; they were known as coureurs des bois, or "wood rangers.
Hence they derived the title of Coureurs des Bois, became a kind of pedlars, and were extremely useful to the merchants engaged in the fur trade; who gave them the necessary credit to proceed on their commercial undertakings.
My coureurs des bois and Indian messengers have been arriving in succession all last night and this morning.
He had made many a tramp on snow-shoes with thecoureurs des bois far into the heart of the wilderness.
Then along with the missionaries, Hennepin and Marquette, came the coureursdes bois, Nicholas Perrot and Daniel Greyloson Duluth.
There were Indians with packs; and the old race of the coureurs des bois, who were still picturesque with their red sashes and jaunty habiliments.
The rollicking coureurs des bois, who came to be almost a race by themselves, added their jollity and often carried it too far, ending in fighting and arrests.
In 1668 Talon returned to France, taking with him one of those hardy bushrangers (coureurs de bois) who passed nearly the whole of their lives in the interior and in the company of the Hurons.
It should be borne in mind that the western country at this period, and for long afterwards, was frequented by roving, adventurous parties of coureurs des bois, whose activity in trade tended to injure the Company's business.
They appealed to that same element in him which the coureurs de bois knew how to reach.
Among colonists who had thronged out to meet the bearers of colonial riches as soon as the first Indian canoe was beached, were the coureurs de bois.
Jacques le Ber is a noble of the colony," declared Du Lhut, with the derisive freedom this great ranger and leader of coureurs de bois assumed toward any one; "for hath he not purchased his patent of King Louis for six thousand livres?
Many a time hath he pulled me down off the palisade when I looked over to see the coureurs de bois go roaring by.
Nobodee he don' know, but dat ole man an' hees coureurs du bois.
Under such leaders as Du Lhut, the coureursde bois built forts of palisades at various points throughout the West and Northwest.
From the Northeast came a splendid succession of French explorers like La Verendrye, with coureurs des bois, and a multitude of daring trappers and traders pushing west and south.
French voyageurs andcoureurs du bois had mated with Indian women before there was a Hudson Bay Company.
They were nothing like as enterprising as the French coureurs du bois.
Thus Canada bred two distinct species of colonists, the habitans of the central St. Lawrence, and the voyageurs or coureurs de bois.
No colonists were ever more carefully drilled and organized than the Canadian agriculturists; none ever lived a life of more unbounded freedom than the Canadian coureurs de bois.
Freedom was to be found in the backwoods among the coureurs de bois, but it was the freedom of lawlessness, unleavened by the steadfast sobriety which marked the Calvinists of France.
Saint Anne's chapel, a halting-place of the coureurs de bois, 25.
The canoemen were mainly French-Canadian coureurs de bois, gay voyageurs on lake and stream.
It was much nearer Detroit; but the Louisiana colony stood next to France in the imagination and longing of priests, voyageurs, coureurs de bois and reckless adventurers who had Latin blood in their veins.
He measured her by the women with whom the coureurs de bois and half-breed trappers consorted in Detroit and at the posts eastward to Quebec.
He chose for his companions on this dangerous expedition two expert coureurs de bois, Dutremble and Jacques Bailoup.
Had he not heard here in Montreal from Indian coureurs how the English overland expedition lay rotting of smallpox near Lake Champlain, such pitiable objects that the Iroquois refused to join them against the French?
Those {182} are the coureursde bois from Montreal and the bushrovers of the Pays d'en Haut, eight hundred strong.
Quickly the commander at Quebec sent coureurs with warning to Frontenac, and then set about casting up barricades in the narrow streets that led from Lower to Upper Town.
Perhaps their worst enemy was the brandy traffic carried on by the coureurs de bois, which brought in its wake drunkenness, disease, licentiousness, and crime.
Some of the coureurs de bois, who displayed their wares and traded for furs at the mission stations, were almost as obnoxious to the priests as the brandy which they offered.
We cannot read without admiration of the acts of bravery and daring frequently accomplished by the coureurs de bois.
With such extensive operations as the foregoing in the region reached by Wisconsin rivers, it is obvious that the government could not keep the coureurs de bois from the woods.
Two of the most noteworthy of these coureurs de bois, or wood-rangers, were Radisson and Groseilliers.
French traders frequently received their supplies from Albany, a practice against which the English authorities legislated in 1720; and the coureurs de bois smuggled their furs to the same place.
Its citizens were mostly disbanded soldiers, traders and coureurs de bois—a turbulent population, whose control taxed to the utmost the patience, tact and ingenuity of the priestly governors.
The austerity of the most sombre acetic relaxed at the sight of his debonair face; the craftiest of Indian diplomats, the most lawless of coureurs de bois were alike moulded to the purposes of the young Canadian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coureurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
