New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest 2 Volume Set

The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and of David Thompson, 1799–1814

Alexander Henry, David Thompson (Autoren)

Elliott Coues (Herausgeber)

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1082 Seiten

2015
Cambridge University Press
978-1-108-07939-6 (ISBN)

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Fur trader Alexander Henry (1765–1814) and geographer David Thompson (1770–1857) were employees of the Northwest Company. Their unpublished journals were edited by the ornithologist Elliott Coues (1842–99) and appeared in 1897 in three volumes; in this two-volume reissue the index volume is included in Volume 2.

During 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 In 1894 Coues tracked down manuscripts of their unpublished journals, and his abridged and edited version of Henry's text, accompanied by notes that draw heavily on Thompson's scientific records, appeared in 1897.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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.4.2015
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 218 mm
Gewicht	1360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-108-07939-3 / 1108079393
ISBN-13	978-1-108-07939-6 / 9781108079396
Zustand	Neuware