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!

Joachim Lafleur

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 28, 2019 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"

Joachim Lafleur worked at Fort Okanogan in the 1840’s, when Alexander Caulfield Anderson was in charge of Fort Colvile. I just wrote a tweet that mentioned Lafleur, and that reminded…

Grand Coulee

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 31, 2016 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"

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,…