author
Agnes C. Laut
1871–1936
A prolific Canadian writer, journalist, and historian, she turned the drama of exploration, fur trading, and frontier life into vivid popular history and fiction. Her work helped introduce many readers to the early story of Canada and the North American West.
15 Audiobooks
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
by Agnes C. Laut
Lords of the North
by Agnes C. Laut
Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
by Agnes C. Laut
The Canadian Commonwealth
by Agnes C. Laut
The quenchless light
by Agnes C. Laut
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
by Agnes C. Laut
The Story of the Trapper
by Agnes C. Laut
Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
by Agnes C. Laut
The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia
by Agnes C. Laut
About the author
Born in Ontario in 1871 and raised from early childhood in Winnipeg, Agnes C. Laut grew up close to the frontier world that later shaped her books. She studied at the University of Manitoba, taught school for a time, and worked as an editorial writer for the Manitoba Free Press before building a wider career as an author.
Laut wrote both fiction and nonfiction, and she became especially known for lively books about exploration, settlement, the fur trade, and western history. Among her best-known titles are Lords of the North, The Conquest of the Great Northwest, and The Fur Trade of America. Her writing was aimed at general readers, with a strong sense of adventure and storytelling.
She later lived much of her life in the United States and also worked in social causes as well as journalism. Agnes C. Laut died in 1936 in Wassaic, New York, leaving behind a large body of writing that reflects an enduring fascination with Canadian history and the wider North American past.