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!

Christmas Celebrations

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 2, 2021 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company

There is one set of Christmas celebrations that I have forgotten to include in my recent Christmas and New Years posts, and that is those of Thomas Lowe, at Fort…

Waiilatpu Massacre

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

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…