Freshwater Passages: The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond

by David Chapin

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740-1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known as a partner in Montreal's North West Company and as mentor to Alexander Mackenzie, who journeyed down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Sea. Knowing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803246323
• ISBN13: 9780803246324
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"