New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest. The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and David Thompson. 1799-1814

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Author: Alexander Henry (1739-1824) and David Thompson Year: 1897 Publisher: Francis P. Harper Place: New York Description: 3 volumes. xxviii+[1]-446 pages with frontispiece ; vi+[447]-916 pages; [vi]+ [917]-1027 pages with 3 folding maps and folded text sheet in rear pocket. Royal octavo (9¼" x 6") bound in original publisher's original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, custom marbled paper-covered slipcase. Edited by Elliott Coues. No. 887 of 1100 copies. (Howes H419; Tweney 9.) First Edition. Important source material on early trade and exploration in the far west. Tweney describes it as "an entirely new and original work printed from the original manuscripts, and contains the authors' daily journal of travels, explorations, and adventures in the fur trade throughout the Northwest." Alexander Henry 'The Elder' was an American-born explorer, author, merchant who settled in Quebec following the Conquest of New France and was a partner in the North West Company and a founding member and vice-chairman of the Beaver Club. From 1763 to 1764, he lived and hunted with Wawatam of the Ojibwe, who had adopted him as a brother. Henry's imagination was caught by the rich potential of the Northwest Territories and he sailed to England in the autumn of 1776 with a proposal for the Hudson's Bay Company. Bearing a Letter of introduction from Luc de la Corne to his brother Abbé Joseph-Marie de La Corne de Chaptes, Henry next went to France where he was met with "a most flattering recept

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