New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest 2 Volume Set
New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest 2 Volume Set
David Thompson
Elliott Coues
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GBPDuring the 1890s Elliott Coues (1842–99), one of America's greatest ornithologists, edited several exploration narratives about the American Northwest, including Lewis and Clark's Travels. Coues became aware 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. In 1894 Coues tracked down manuscripts of their unpublished journals, and his abridged and edited version of Henry's text, accompanied by notes that draw heavily on Thompson's scientific records, appeared in 1897. Coues explains that although Henry's account reveals deep prejudice, its graphic but unimaginative descriptions of his unscrupulous business dealings, and of the harsh realities he observed among many different First Nations peoples, are corroborated by other accounts. Coues produced a comprehensive index of the people and places mentioned by Henry; originally published as 'Volume 3', it is here placed at the end of the second volume.
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April 2015Multiple copy pack
9781108079396
1082 pages
218 × 142 × 69 mm
1.36kg
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Editor's preface
- Part I. The Red River:
- 1. My first venture, 1799–1800
- 2. The Red river Brigade of 1800
- 3. The Park river post, 1800–1
- 4. The Pembina river post, 1801–2
- 5. The Pembina river post (cont.), 1802–3
- 6. The Pembina river post (cont.), 1803–4
- 7. The Pembina river post (cont.), 1804–5
- 8. The Pembina river post (cont.), 1805–6
- 9. The Mandan tour, 1806
- 10. The Cheyenne treaty, 1806
- 11. From the Mandans to Pembina, 1806
- 12. The Pembina river post, concluded, 1807–8. Volume 2: 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.
