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!

Waiilatpu Massacre

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

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…

Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 12, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Natives in the Fur Trade

I have always been interested in the story of the Walla Walla Chief named Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox — an Indigenous man who I think was a very honorable man. I run across…