Connecting Stories
Sometimes, quite by accident, a writer is able to connect one story to another in ways that makes two little stories into a bigger story that is much more important.…
Read moreHistoric Posts in the West
So lets do a fun post about the Historic Posts in the West: that is, posts on the West side of the Rocky Mountains. The Peel’s River post (Fort McPherson)…
Read moreOtter skins
This story has on odd beginning: you would not think that a story about Otter Skins would have anything to do with the construction of a fur trade fort, would…
Read moreSamuel Black
Samuel Black was the oddest of all the HBC men. Black, born in 1780, was a young highlander of enormous size when he came to Canada and joined the fur…
Read moreAnderson 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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