The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2: The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated Texts

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David Thompson’s Travels is among the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not just the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North The united states. The second one in a planned three volumes of Thompson’s writings, this edition completes the great surveyor and fur trader’s spirited autobiographical narrative. In the 1848 Travels, Thompson describes his most enduring historical legacy – the extension of the fur trade across the Continental Divide between 1807 and 1812. All the way through these years he established several Nor’wester trading posts, made contact with the tribal peoples of the Columbia Plateau, and tirelessly mapped the lands he traversed, always striving westward toward the Pacific. The tale culminates with Thompson’s historic arrival on the mouth of the Columbia in July 1811. Like its companion Volume 1, this work presents an entirely new transcription by William Moreau of Thompson’s manuscript, and is accompanied by an introductory essay placing the creator in his historical and intellectual context. Extensive critical annotations, a biographical appendix, and historical and up to date maps, make this the definitive choice of Thompson’s works, and bring one of North The united states’s most important travelers and surveyors to a new generation of readers.

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