1858 Brigade Trails

It is interesting to see how the packers who followed the HBC trails into the upper district travelled up and down what they called “the Old Brigade Trail” to…
Read moreIt is interesting to see how the packers who followed the HBC trails into the upper district travelled up and down what they called “the Old Brigade Trail” to…
Read moreA few days ago I was thinking about the 1843 brigade trail, and wondered if I would get any clues on its location from David Douglas’s journey to New Caledonia…
Read moreFrom Loon Lake, in what is now the province of British Columbia, the men of the incoming New Caledonia brigade rode northwest, crossing the range of hills that lay between…
Read moreThis blogpost has been rewritten, with lots of new information. I have learned much more about the trail since I wrote this the first time. In November 1842, Alexander Caulfield…
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