Grasses
Grasses: An unlikely subject, perhaps, but one that is becoming of interest to some historians West of the Rocky Mountains. But while I researched my upcoming brigades book, I discovered…
Read moreChilcotin Post
The Chilcotin post, first built in 1829 as a temporary post and completed at a later date, stood at the junction of the Chilco and Chilcotin Rivers and was an…
Read moreProvisions for the Brigades
In one of his manuscripts Anderson wrote about the pigs that were at Fort Alexandria when he was there, and how happy he was to see the last of them!…
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In 1841, while he was in charge of Fort Nisqually, Alexander Caulfield Anderson got into a little trouble with Chief Factor John McLoughlin. Anderson had quarreled with a French-Canadian employee,…
Read moreThe 1843 brigade trail, Copper Creek to Loon Lake
In November 1842, Alexander Caulfield Anderson rode north from Kamloops, over the newly explored trail that was to replace the old brigade trail over the North Thompson plateau. Apparently Anderson…
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