NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON

An Accidental Historian, writing about the people who worked in the Territory West of the Rocky Mountains before 1858 — so many good stories!

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Whaleteah, chief of the Alexandria home guard

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 29, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Natives in the Fur Trade
Whaleteah, chief of the Alexandria home guard

Alexander Caulfield Anderson called the one of the Native men who lived outside Fort Alexandria “Whaletah,” and Chief Trader Donald McLean (who took over the post after Anderson left) wrote…

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Salmon Runs, 1843 to 1858

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 20, 2015 Fur Trade History, Natives in the Fur Trade
Salmon Runs, 1843 to 1858

As a BC-ite and fur trade historian of sorts, I have been brought up on the notion that the salmon runs were regular events, and that only once in every…

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Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 12, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Natives in the Fur Trade
Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox

I have always been interested in the story of the Walla Walla Chief named Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox — a Native who I think was a very honorable man. I run across him…

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Blackeye Folklore

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 25, 2015 Explorations, Natives in the Fur Trade
Blackeye Folklore

At the turn of the century, a small group of Athapascan warriors from the Chilcotins crossed the Fraser River and made their way south, toward Kamloops Lake. They knew they…

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The Murderer

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Natives in the Fur Trade
The Murderer

In the memoirs of James Robert Anderson, son of Alexander Caulfield Anderson, there are the beginnings of many little stories, which I am sometimes able to develop into larger ones.…

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