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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Measles in the Columbia district, summer to fall 1847

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 16, 2016 "The HBC Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Measles in the Columbia district, summer to fall 1847

In my first book, The Pathfinder, I wrote a little of the measles epidemic in the Columbia district, that finally reached Fort Alexandria [in central British Columbia] in January 1848.…

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Waiilatpu Massacre

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 9, 2016 "The HBC Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Waiilatpu Massacre

From my first book, The Pathfinder, I post the brief introduction to the 1847 measles epidemic in the Columbia district and New Caledonia [British Columbia], that eventually resulted in the…

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Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 12, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Natives in the Fur Trade
Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox

I have always been interested in the story of the Walla Walla Chief named Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox — an Indigenous man who I think was a very honorable man. I run across…

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