New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest
The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and of David Thompson, 1799-1814
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History; Volume 2;
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Product details:
- Edition number and title Volume 2
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 2 April 2015
- ISBN 9781108079389
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages602 pages
- Size 216x140x34 mm
- Weight 760 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 b/w illus. 3 maps 0
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Short description:
A two-volume version of an 1897 publication containing abridged and edited journals relating to exploration of America's Northwest.
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During the 1890s Elliott Coues (1842-1899), one of America's greatest ornithologists, edited several exploration narratives about the American Northwest, including Lewis and Clark's Travels. Coues tracked down the manuscript journals of two of Lewis and Clark's contemporaries, fur trader Alexander Henry (1765-1814) and geographer David Thompson (1770-1857), employees of the Northwest Company. Coues' abridged and edited version of Henry's text, accompanied by notes that draw heavily on Thompson's scientific records, appeared in 1897 in three volumes. Despite the deep prejudice evident in Henry's writing, Coues judged it a reliable account of his unscrupulous business dealings, and of the harsh realities he observed among many different First Nations peoples. Volume 2 covers 1808-14, when Henry travelled in Saskatchewan and Alberta, crossed the Great Divide, and traded along the Columbia River. This volume also contains Coues' original Volume 3, a comprehensive index of people and places.
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Part II. The Saskatchewan: 13. The Saskatchewan brigade of 1808; 14. Ethnography of Fort Vermilion; 15. Fort Vermilion; 16. To Fort Augustus and back; 17. Fort Vermilion (cont.); 18. The new White Earth house; 19. Overland from White Earth to the Rocky Mountain house, 1810; 20. The Rocky Mountain house; 21. Over the great divide; 22. Geography and ethnography; 23. Down the Saskatchewan, 1811; Part III. The Columbia: 24. Astoria, 1813; 25. The Columbia and Willamette tour, 1814; 26. Fort George, 1814; 27. Fort George, concluded, 1814; Index and maps.
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