Robert Clouston
Robert Clouston crossed the Rocky Mountains into the Columbia District in 1850, accompanying the botanist John Jeffrey on his journey west. Clouston had plenty to say about the crossing of…
Read moreCaptain Wilkes at Fort Nisqually
So Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Exploring Expedition, has arrived at Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound. The year is 1841, and clerk Alexander Caulfield Anderson is in charge…
Read moreThomas Lowe, 1844
Thomas Lowe kept a series of journals of his time at Fort Vancouver, and they contain a great deal of information about the running of that Pacific Coast headquarters. In…
Read moreShipping at Fort Vancouver
It is time to write a little more about Thomas Lowe’s experiences at Fort Vancouver, and so we will now do it. We have just come through the Fort Vancouver…
Read moreOn the way to Sitka
This post is about Thomas Lowe’s journey north to Sitka, the Russian headquarters on the Northwest Coast, in what is now the Alaska Panhandle. I do have to correct something…
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