A two-volume version of an 1897 publication containing abridged and edited journals relating to exploration of America's Northwest.
New Light on Early History of the Greater Northwest
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: .
New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry, Fur Trader of the...
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; in this reissue the index volume is included in Volume 2.
Hoth. Hunters running buffalo, with which the plains are covered; at the fort heard them fire, and saw the cows fall; ... One Delorme of the N. W. Co. was with Thompson at the fort near the forks of Peace r., summer and fall of 1803; ...
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.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...
Roe, The North American Bufl'alo, 477—79; David D. Smits, “The Frontier Army and the Destruction ofthe Bul'falo:1865—1883,” Western Historical Quarterly 25 (1994): 334—38; William A. Dobak, “The Army and the Buffalo: A Demur,” Western ...
... vol . 2 , pp . 429-31 . 33 Elliot Coues , ed . , New light on the early history of the greater Northwest . The manuscript journals of Alexan- der Henry , Fur Trader of the Northwest Company and of David Thompson , Official Geographer ...
In this work, oral tradition, history, and ethnography are brought together with a geomorphic assessment of the playing ground’s most probable location—a floodplain scoured and rebuilt by floodwaters of the Oldman—and the archaeology ...