My new portrait, or one of them, for my upcoming book, The York Factory Express. You can now pre-order the book through the publisher’s website, at http://www.ronsdalepress.com/york-factory-express-the/ The cover design…
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This post is a continuation of John Charles’s story. I began this story some time ago, as you may remember, and it began with this paragraph: John Charles led out…
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So James Anderson and James Green Stewart and their men have now reached the headwaters of the Great Fish River, and will begin their journey north to the Arctic Ocean.…
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When I was doing research some time ago for another book (“The Brigades”), I ran across one man who made an impossible journey through New Caledonia, heading north to the…
Read moreA simple announcement: The publication of The York Factory Express has been delayed for six months or so, but it is now being completed, as the person who is doing…
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I ended the first section of this blogpost with the information that when Governor George Simpson arrived in the anchorage at Fort Stikine, he experienced a bad feeling. Both the…
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