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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Duelling Historians

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 21, 2024 "The HBC Brigades", HBC Transportation Systems
Duelling Historians

This post is a continuation of the series I began a while ago: Fort St. James, as taken from Jamie Morton’s manuscript, “A Century of Fur Trade on Stuart Lake,”…

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Fort Colvile Brigade

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 16, 2024 "The HBC Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Fort Colvile Brigade

This is the story of the Fort Covile Brigade in its early years. The story is told by John Work, and there are some very interesting comments made in this…

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Fort Okanogan to Fort Nez Perces

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 11, 2015 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
Fort Okanogan to Fort Nez Perces

At Fort Okanogan, the brigades prepared to descend the Columbia River to Fort Nez Perces [Walla Walla] and Fort Vancouver, their headquarters a hundred miles inland from the mouth of…

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