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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1858 Brigade Trails

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 13, 2020 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
1858 Brigade Trails

  It is interesting to see how the packers who followed the HBC trails into the upper district travelled up and down what they called “the Old Brigade Trail” to…

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Bridge River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 26, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
Bridge River

I find that, entirely by accident, two threads (stories) I am telling merge at the same place: at what the HBC men called Bridge River! But, as you can see…

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Cattle Drive

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 27, 2017 "The Brigades", Fur Trade History
Cattle Drive

A few days ago I was thinking about the 1843 brigade trail, and wondered if I would get any clues on its location from David Douglas’s journey to New Caledonia…

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Animals in the HBC’s New Caledonia posts

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 20, 2017 Brigade Trails, Fur Trade History
Animals in the HBC’s New Caledonia posts

I just read an article online, published in the Gering Citizen Newspaper [Facebook page], on Domestic Animals on the Oregon Trail. The author, Lesley Gaunt, listed quite a number of…

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The Road Crew

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 29, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Road Crew

  I sometimes work with a researcher who does not listen, and it becomes very difficult to have to explain, once again, that the information he/she is presenting me is…

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