Unsettled Audiobook Libro.fm

The fascinating story of the Red River Settlement now Winnipeg in the years 1813 to 1816 told with archival journals reports and letters

Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who flee the Scottish Clearances in 1813 to establish a settlement on the Red River in what eventually became Winnipeg They are sponsored by the Earl of Selkirk a man who has never been west of Montreal Families who have never left their Highland crofts take an epic journey over ocean up wild rivers and through boundless wilderness surviving disease and brutal winter only to face the determined opposition of fur barons who want no sodbusters threatening their trade and are prepared to stop at nothing to destroy their dream

The empty land theyve been promised is also anything but already occupied by First Nations bands and the beginnings of that proud nation soon to be called Mtis whom they must befriend or fight

Unsettled takes you inside the experience relying on journals reports and letters to bring these days of soaring hope crushing despair and heroic determination to lifeto bring their present into ours