"The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens"--Provided by publisher.
"The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens"--Provided by publisher.
"The gripping true story of an ill-fated canoe voyage across the uninhabited Canadian barrens"--Provided by publisher.
"Twentieth-century scholars have based their claims for Henday's importance as an explorer, trader and observer of Native cultures on a poorly edited transcript of the 1782 text. They have been unaware or careless of the journal's textual ambiguity. A Year Inland presents all fo…
Anthony Henday, a young Hudson's Bay Company employee, set out from York Factory in June 1754 to winter with "trading Indians" along the Saskatchewan River. He adapted willingly and easily to their way of life; he also kept a journal in which he described the plains region and t…
"Anthony Henday, a young Hudson's Bay Company employee, set out from York Factory in June 1754 to winter with "trading Indians" along the Saskatchewan River. He adapted willingly and easily to their way of life; he also kept a journal in which he described the plains region and …
Anthony Henday, a young Hudson's Bay Company employee, set out from York Factory in June 1754 to winter with "trading Indians" along the Saskatchewan River. He adapted willingly and easily to their way of life; he also kept a journal in which he described the plains region and t…
Presents an extensive, edited selection of the public and private letters of Archibald McDonald (1790-1853), one of the Hudson's Bay Company's first men to go west of the mountains after the company's merger with the North West Company. Characterized by a frank, original style, …
"The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest : 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, and 1846 saw the signing of the Oregon Treaty, which established…
"The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest: 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, and 1846 saw the signing of the Oregon Treaty, which established …