Beyond the River and the Bay The Canadian Northwest in 1811

Name: Beyond the River and the Bay The Canadian Northwest in 1811
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ISBN: 9780802061881

ISBN-10: 0802061885

ISBN-13: 9780802061881

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eric Ross

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Beyond the River and the Bay brings to life the exciting landscape of the Canadian Northwest in the early years of the nineteenth century when the fur traders from the St. Lawrence clashed with their rivals from Hudson Bay. The book is based on an imaginary long-lost manuscript by Ian Alexander Bell Robertson entitled "Some Observations on the State of the Canadian Northwest in 1811." Robertson, a friend of Lord Selkirk and Sir Walter Scott, was invented by Ross in order to integrate into the test remarks by such contemporary observers as David Thompson, Daniel Harmon, Peter Fidler, and Alexander Mackenzie. This book provides a picture of the Northwest at it was immediately prior first…

Book details

List price: $9.95
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English