Captain Wilkes at Fort Nisqually

So Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Exploring Expedition, has arrived at Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound. The year is 1841, and clerk Alexander Caulfield Anderson is in charge…
Read moreSo Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Exploring Expedition, has arrived at Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound. The year is 1841, and clerk Alexander Caulfield Anderson is in charge…
Read moreIn 1840 and 1841, Alexander Caulfield Anderson was put in temporary charge of the Cowlitz Farm, and later posted to Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound. The location of the future…
Read moreWe begin again with Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s journal of his exploration/expedition from Kamloops to Fort Langley, by what later became the Harrison-Lillooet Trail. The year is 1846, and his party…
Read moreSo today I am going to write about the Beaver. Why? Because I now have two fur traders who are describing this animal to their London readers. Future London readers,…
Read moreIn this post we continue with the story of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s expedition from the Kamloops post to Fort Langley in 1846. This is the first of the four “explorations”…
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