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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Anderson at Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 19, 2023 "Headquarters", A Literary A. C. Anderson
Anderson at Fort Nisqually

In 1840 and 1841, Alexander Caulfield Anderson was put in temporary charge of the Cowlitz Farm, and later posted to Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound. The location of the future…

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HBC Ships in the Pacific

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 20, 2022 "Headquarters", HBC Transportation Systems
HBC Ships in the Pacific

I have accidentally discovered that some of the HBC ships that ran up and down the Pacific Coast were larger than I expected them to be! As you see in…

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Thomas Lowe sails the South Pacific

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 6, 2021 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
Thomas Lowe sails the South Pacific

At last, as you can see from the last post of this series, Thomas Lowe has sailed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, rounding Cape Horn during its summer…

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Thomas Lowe Rounds the Horn

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 6, 2021 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
Thomas Lowe Rounds the Horn

Thomas Lowe has set sail on the ship, Vancouver, which (in my last blogpost) has just sailed past Falkland Islands on its way southward, sailing through the waters of the…

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Thomas Lowe sails the Southern Atlantic

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 13, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
Thomas Lowe sails the Southern Atlantic

Thomas Lowe has survived the traditional shaving that results from crossing the equator on a sailing vessel in 1841, and now has the rounding of Cape Horn, at the southern…

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