Author: Alexander Mackenzie Publisher: New York : Citadel Press ISBN: Category : Explorers Languages : en Pages : 440
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Reproduction of Mackenzie's journals of expeditions from Lake Athabasca to the Arctic Ocean and from Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean, first published in 1801. Includes account of development of fur trade by the Northwest Company.
Author: Derek Hayes Publisher: D & M Publishers ISBN: 9781926706597 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
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First Crossing recounts an adventure of epic proportions -- in equal parts romantic, historically significant and compelling. It is the story of Canada's most famous explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 became the first person to cross the continent of North America north of Mexico. With a mix of wonderfully readable text, historical and contemporary photographs, and archival maps and illustrations, here is fresh insight into what drove Mackenzie to undertake his dramatic and dangerous quest for the Pacific Ocean, and how his daring secured Canada's legacy.
Author: Alexander Mackenzie Publisher: ISBN: 9781589760363 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 430
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Alexander Mackenzie was the first man to cross continental North America, a trip he accomplished by canoe ... 12 years before Lewis and Clark.
Author: Alexander Mackenzie Publisher: LA CASE Books ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 469
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Explorer Alexander Mackenzie details his journeys to both the Arctic and Pacific Oceans in his personal journals. In 1789 he took, what later became known, as Mackenzie River expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Thinking that it would lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska, Mackenzie set out by canoe on the river known to the local people as the Dehcho on 3 July 1789. On 14 July he reached the Arctic Ocean, rather than the Pacific. Ironically he called the waterway "the River Disappointment," since the river did not prove to be the Northwest Passage, as he had hoped. The river later came to be known as the Mackenzie River in his honor. Mackenzie returned to Canada in 1792, set out once again to find a route to the Pacific, what he managed in the summer of 1973. Having done this, he had completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico, 12 years before Lewis and Clark.
Author: Alexander Mackenzie
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Author: Sir Alexander MACKENZIE
Author: Derek Hayes
Author: Alexander Mackenzie
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Author: Alexander MacKenzie
Author: Alexander Mackenzie
Author: Alexander Mackenzie 
Author: Alexander Mackenzie