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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Warre’s York Factory Express Journal

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 16, 2024 "York Factory Express", York Factory Express
Warre’s York Factory Express Journal

The two British spies, Henry James Warre and Mervin Vavasour, left the Columbia district in the outgoing York Factory Express of March, 1846. We have Henry Warre’s York Factory Express…

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Grand Coulee

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 31, 2016 "The HBC 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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Incoming brigades, Journey to Fort Okanogan

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 14, 2016 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
Incoming brigades, Journey to Fort Okanogan

William Connolly began the journal of his voyage from Fort Nez Perces to Okanogan with a complaint: “Mr [Samuel] Black Traded a few Horses — but at the rate he…

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