This Blessed Wilderness: Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44

by Archibald McDonald and Jean Cole

Archibald McDonald was one of the most important fur traders in the region west of the Rockies. He is particularly remembered as a factor at Forts Langley, Kamloops, and Colville, and as one of the traders who enabled the Hudson's Bay Company to gain control of the vast region west of the Rockies. A pioneer cartographer, he also prepared the first censuses of Kamloops and Fort Langley. In this informative and entertaining collection of letters, his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774808330
• ISBN13: 9780774808330
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"