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!

Blackeye Folklore

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 25, 2015 Explorations, Natives in the Fur Trade

At the turn of the century, a small group of Athapascan warriors from the Chilcotins crossed the Fraser River and made their way south, toward Kamloops Lake. They knew they…

Potlatch

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 3, 2014 "The Brigades", Natives in the Fur Trade

As Alexander Caulfield Anderson made his way along the north shores of the lakes later named Seton and Anderson Lakes, he wrote of the Natives’ welcoming ceremonies. The day before…