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Columbia Journals
Belyea, Barbara; Thompson, David
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Description for Columbia Journals
Paperback. David Thompson (1770-1857) is considered to have been the important surveyor of North America. Documenting Northwest Company's efforts to find trade routes across Canadian Rocky Mountains, this book reveals Thompson's interest in mapping the great river of the West sought by generations of explorers. It traces fur trade's westernmost expansion. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 418.
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. With the publication of David Thompson's Columbia Journals Barbara Belyea makes this possible. Documenting the Northwest Company's efforts to ... Read more
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. With the publication of David Thompson's Columbia Journals Barbara Belyea makes this possible. Documenting the Northwest Company's efforts to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773533257
SKU
V9780773533257
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About Belyea, Barbara; Thompson, David
Barbara Belyea is a faculty professor (Humanities) at the University of Calgary.
Reviews for Columbia Journals
"Columbia Journals allows us to evaluate David Thompson more fully as an actor in the history of the west, and to understand more critically the assessment and misinterpretations made by a number of earlier researchers." Richard Ruggles, Queen's University, Ontario