Columbia Journals
David Thompson
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Description for Columbia Journals
Paperback.
David Thompson (1770-1857) is considered by many to have been the most important surveyor of North America. His achievements -- mapping the Saskatchewan River, the great bend of the Missouri River, the Great Lakes and the headwaters of the Mississippi as well as the Columbia watershed -- are the stuff of legend. Late in life Thompson wrote a retrospective memoir of his explorations, but the best way to understand his years in the fur trade is by reading his journals.
In her new Preface to the Bicentennial Edition of Columbia Journals, Barbara Belyea considers the fur-trade context of journals, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295987484
SKU
V9780295987484
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99-2
About David Thompson
Barbara Belyea is professor emerita of English, University of Calgary.
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