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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1858 Brigade Trails

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 13, 2020 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
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…

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Animals in the HBC’s New Caledonia posts

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 20, 2017 Brigade Trails, Fur Trade History
Animals in the HBC’s New Caledonia posts

I just read an article online, published in the Gering Citizen Newspaper [Facebook page], on Domestic Animals on the Oregon Trail. The author, Lesley Gaunt, listed quite a number of…

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