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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Grand Coulee

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 31, 2016 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Grand Coulee

In 1848 Thomas Lowe’s York Factory Express went out by the Grand Coulee. No other express had taken that out of the way route, as far as I am aware,…

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South of Fort Colvile, on the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 17, 2016 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
South of Fort Colvile, on the Columbia River

This post is the twenty first leg of the York Factory Express journey, and we are “falling down” the Columbia River south of Fort Colvile. The gentlemen who were keeping…

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Measles in the Columbia district, summer to fall 1847

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 16, 2016 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Measles in the Columbia district, summer to fall 1847

In my first book, The Pathfinder, I wrote a little of the measles epidemic in the Columbia district, that finally reached Fort Alexandria [in central British Columbia] in January 1848.…

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Waiilatpu Massacre

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 9, 2016 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Waiilatpu Massacre

From my first book, The Pathfinder, I post the brief introduction to the 1847 measles epidemic in the Columbia district and New Caledonia [British Columbia], that eventually resulted in the…

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James Birnie, 1826-1827

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 2, 2014 "York Factory Express", James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie, 1826-1827

James Birnie traveled out with the 1826 York Factory Express, and he crossed the mountains with the incoming Columbia Express. He is mentioned in Aemilius Simpson’s 1826 York Factory Express…

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