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The birth of a nation
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December, 1807, and Alexander Henry answers an urgent hammering on
the door of the North West Company fur post he manages on the Pembina
River, in what is now North Dakota. Outside, breath smoking in the
freezing air, is a diminutive, distraught-looking Orkney man, John
Fubbister by name, one of many from the northerly Scottish islands
working with the rival Hudson's Bay company. Fubbister is seeking
shelter, and complaining of feeling ill.
Henry lets the man in, but gets more than he bargained for. A
short while afterwards, he reported later, he found Fubbister,
"extended out upon the ...
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