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The Pathfinder: A. C. Anderson's Journeys in the West

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ISBN-10: 1926936825

ISBN-13: 9781926936826

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nancy Marguerite Anderson

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Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudson's Bay Company clerk named Alexander Caulfield Anderson threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapids-filled rivers in search of a safe all-British route through the mountains that separated the HBC fort at Kamloops from Fort Langley on the Pacific coast. Eventually, Anderson discovered four routes, succeeding where Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser before him had failed. Without his explorations, historian Derek Pethick once wrote, British Columbia may never have come into being or become a part of the Dominion of Canada. For Anderson, the cross-country expeditions he undertook were welcome antidotes to a fur-trade…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books Inc
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Introduction: A Fish Out of Water
The Promise of the Anderson-Seton Family
From Lachine House to Fort Vancouver, 1831-32
Hostilities on the Northwest Coast, 1833-34
The Wreck of the Hojunmaru, 1833-34
Relocating Old Fort Simpson, 1834
The Promise of the Fur Trade, 1835-36
The Traditional Fur Trade, 1836
The Fraser's Lake Post, 1837-41
Cowlitz Farm and Fort Nisqually, 1840-42
The York Factory Express^ 1842
The Siberia of the Fur Trade, 1842-43
Agriculture at Fort Alexandria, 1843-44
Landslides and Salmon Runs, 1844-45
The Fur Trade, 1845-46
The Search for a New Brigade Trail, 1846
The Return Journey over the Mountains, 1846
The New Chief Trader, 1846-47
The Anderson's River Trail, 1847-48
A Year of Great Changes, 1847-48
Fort Colvile, 1849-50
Fort Colvile Brigades, 1850-51
No Future in His Past, 1851-52160
Life and Death in New Oregon Territory, 1853-57
The Curse of the Fur Trade, 1858-60
"And I Say You Lie, Sir!" 1859
The Unsettled Settler, 1861-76
The Indian Reserve Commission on the Coast, 1876-77
Hawking about the Country, 1877-83
Inspector of Fisheries, 1876-83
Cross the Dark River, 1884
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements