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Direct for the author. — No book about David Thompson sheds as much light and detail about his travel and daily activity during the years he spent as a fur trader, explorer and surveyor west of the Rocky Mountains as this newly released, 392 page, information packed tribute to one of the greatest of the great explorers. Focusing on the period 1807-1812, and using Thompson's journal and narrative as the primary sources of information, the author spent almost five years identifying and tracking Thompson across the vast wilderness expanses of Canada first as an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and later as a full partner of the competition — the North West Company.
If you have a historical interest in the fur trade, the Hudson's Bay Company, the North West Company or David Thompson in particular, this is a book you won't want to miss. It differs from most others about this extraordinary explorer, surveyor, mapmaker and fur trader. Based his journals, it follows his day-to-day travels and the incredible challenges and hardships he faced along thousands of miles of unmapped and dangerous trails and rivers that he traversed and conquered in the vast western wilderness. Offering a new way to look at history, you can travel along the routes with Thompson using Google Earth coordinates.
The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery was a government sponsored project with a single primary goal — reach the shores of the Pacific Ocean and return safely to the East. David Thompson's mission was to establish permanent, profitable trading houses with native peoples he encountered west of the Rockies in a vast landscape that, at the time, was being claimes by both the U.S. and Canada.
Lewis and Clark are familiar names in American history classrooms. David Thompson is not! That is unfortunate. While his name is both renowned and revered in Canada as one of the greatest North American explorers of all time few people in the United States know about Thompson's role in the exploration and settlement of lands west of the Rocky Mountains that are now part of the states of Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
We offer both softcover and hardcover collectors' editions...Just 250 copies of the hardcover collector's edition were printed. All are numbered and signed by the author. In addition, the first 250 of the first edition run of the softcover books are signed and numbered. Don't miss this opportunity.
This is the HARDCOVER edition.
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