Author: John MullanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Report on the Construction of a Military Road from Fort Walla-Walla to Fort Benton
Author: John MullanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Report on the Construction of a Military Road from Fort Walla-Walla to Fort Benton
Author: John MullanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780877701026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Report on the construction of a military road from Fort Walla-Walla to Fort Benton
Author: John MullanMilitary Road from Fort Benton to Fort Walla-Walla
Author: John MullanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military roads
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting the report of Lieutenant Mullan, in charge of the construction of the military road from Fort Benton to Fort Walla-Walla. Includes scatted references to Mullan's dealings with the Flathead and Pend d'Oreille Indians during construction of the road in 1860.
The Important American Library Formed by Dr. William C. Braislin, Sold by His Order ...
Author: William Coughlin BraislinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Wagon roads west
Author: William Turrentine JacksonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This Far-Off Wild Land
Author: Lesley WischmannPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twenty-four after being dismissed from his second job in two years. His poignant sense of isolation is evident throughout his letters home between 1844 and 1861. In This Far-Off Wild Land, Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawson—a relative of this colorful figure—couple an engaging biography of Dawson with thirty-seven of his previously unpublished letters from the American frontier. Three years after he landed in St. Louis, Dawson went up the Missouri in 1847 to what is now North Dakota and Montana, taking command of Fort Berthold, Fort Clark, and eventually Fort Benton, the premier fur trade post of the day. Fort Berthold and Fort Clark, where Dawson worked until 1854, remain two of the least documented American Fur Company posts. His letters infuse life, and occasional high drama, to the stories of these forgotten outposts. At Fort Benton, his insight in establishing commercial warehouses helped the company keep pace with the changing frontier. By the time Dawson returned to Scotland—after twenty years in what he labeled a far-off, wild land—he had risen to become the last “King of the Upper Missouri.” Thoughtfully annotated, Dawson’s letters, discovered only recently by his relatives, provide a rare glimpse into the lonely life of a fur trader in the 1840s and 1850s. Unlike the impersonal business correspondence that makes up most fur trade writings, Dawson’s letters are wonderfully human, suffused with raw emotion. Combining careful research with a compelling story, the authors flesh out the forces that shaped Dawson’s personality and the historical events he recorded.
Report of the Secretary of War, which Accompanied the Annual Message of the President of the United States, to Both Houses of the ... Congress
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Senate Documents
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
Book Description
Subject Index to the History of the Pacific Northwest and of Alaska
Author: Katharine Berry JudsonPublisher: Olympia : Washington State Library, 1913 (Olympia : F.M. Lamborn)
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description