Coureur des bois
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A coureur des bois or coureur de bois were independent entrepreneurial French Canadian traders who travelled in New France and the interior of North America, usually to trade with First Nations people
Coureur de bois, a woodcut by Arthur Heming (1870–1940)
A coureur des bois in the painting La Vérendrye at the Lake of the Woods, circa 1900–1930
Depiction of Samuel de Champlain (1574–1635) by Theophile Hamel (1870)
Radisson & Groseillers Established the Fur Trade in the Great North West, 1662, by Archibald Bruce Stapleton (1917–1950)
Jean Nicolet
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Jean Nicolet, Sieur de Belleborne was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island, Green Bay, and being the first European to set foot in what is now the U.S. state of
Coureur des bois
…Étienne Brûlé was the first European to see the Great Lakes. He travelled to New France with Samuel de Champlain. Jean Nicolet (Nicollet) de Belleborne (Ca. 1598 – 1 November 1642) was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Green Bay in what is now the U.S. state of…
Jean Nicolet landing at the Bay of Green Bay in 1634.
1909 plaque commemorating Nicolet's landing in Red Bank, Wisconsin.
A 1951 statue of Nicolet stands in Green Bay, Wisconsin.