A history of the United States for beginners: for use in elementary schools By William Bramwell Powell
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"10. THE FRENCH
While the English were building homes and The French establishing colonies between the mountains and colonization, the Atlantic Ocean, men from a country in Europe called France were making explorations beyond the mountains.
The French were fur-traders, buying furs from the Indians and giving them fair value for what they bought. The French traders, many of whom married Indian women, treated the Indians in every way as if they were their equals. In this way the French and Indians became very friendly, so that the French did not have the dangers, of Indian warfare to contend with, except from a few tribes which were always friendly with the English.
Whenever there was trouble between France The French and England in the old country across the ocean, the English colonists in America and the French fur-traders took up the qu...