Hudson's Bay1959

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Jonathan Banner:
[narrating] Working for the Hudson's Bay Company as a kind of ambassador in buckskins, I got used to almost any kind of assignment. Bringing a sick man in for treatment at a settlement - that was, of course, routine. Transporting a whole bevy of mail order brides to prospective bridegrooms in the wilderness - that was cheerful mission that once broke the routine. But during the early days of my service with the Hudson's Bay Company a most peculiar, and I will say a not very pleasant duty, fell to my lot. Pierre Falcon and I were to be accompanied on our return from a long overland trip by a corpse.