Celebrating Christmas in a Fur Trade Fort
You will presume from the above photo that the firing of guns was a part of the celebration at Christmas — in the fur trade, the firing of guns was…
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In 1848, Alexander Caulfield Anderson left Fort Alexandria forever, and took over the supervision of Fort Colvile, on the Columbia River just south of the 49th parallel. The man in…
Read moreFlintlock and Percussion Guns
Alexander Caulfield Anderson was always fond of his guns — when he joined the fur trade in 1831, he purchased the best flintlock gun he could find in London. A…
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