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| #1976117 in Books | 2007-08-14 | Format: Deluxe Edition | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.01 x6.12l,.90 | File type: PDF | 362 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Explorer extraordinaire|By William J. Higgins,III|David Thompson was an explorer and cartographer of great magnitude. These personal journals document his explorations in the Canadian Rockies and northwestern U.S. from 1800-1811. His responsibilities were to discover and map new trade routes for the North West Company across the mountains and eventually to the Columbia River||"Columbia Journals allows us to evaluate David Thompson more fully as an actor in the history of the west, and to understand more critically the assessment and misinterpretations made by a number of earlier researchers."―Richard Ruggles, emeritus prof
David Thompson (1770-1857) is considered by many to have been the most important surveyor of North America. His achievements -- mapping the Saskatchewan River, the great bend of the Missouri River, the Great Lakes and the headwaters of the Mississippi as well as the Columbia watershed -- are the stuff of legend. Late in life Thompson wrote a retrospective memoir of his explorations, but the best way to understand his years in the fur trade is by reading his journals. ...
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