South of Fort Colvile, on the Columbia River
This post is the twenty first leg of the York Factory Express journey, and we are “falling down” the Columbia River south of Fort Colvile. The gentlemen who were keeping…
Read moreIncoming brigades, Journey to Fort Okanogan
William Connolly began the journal of his voyage from Fort Nez Perces to Okanogan with a complaint: “Mr [Samuel] Black Traded a few Horses — but at the rate he…
Read moreFort Okanogan to Fort Nez Perces
At Fort Okanogan, the brigades prepared to descend the Columbia River to Fort Nez Perces [Walla Walla] and Fort Vancouver, their headquarters a hundred miles inland from the mouth of…
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