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!

Buried Alive

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 29, 2022 "York Factory Express", A.C. Anderson’s Writing

Alexander Caulfield Anderson came into Fort Vancouver with the incoming Columbia Express of 1832. As he and his incoming Express party reached Fort Nez Percés, they had an interesting, but…

The Grande Dalles in the NWC’s Long Narrows

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 10, 2016 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"

The Long Narrows of the North West Company was a “five mile stretch of fast water 194 river miles from Fort George,” or Astoria, their then headquarters on the Pacific…