Collected Works of Sigurd F. Olson: The Early Writings, 1921-1934

Sugmound F. Olson was an American author, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness. For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario. He was known honorifically as the Bourgeois - a term the voyageurs of old used of their trusted leaders.