Title: Thompson's highway :
Authors: Twigg, Alan,
Date: 2006
Publisher: Ronsdale Press,
Physical description: 253 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: 1. Forts and Furs: Scottish Columbia ; Why the Scots? ; New Caledonia ; Commerce, Sex & Violence ; Astoria & Victoria -- 2. People: Six Leading Men: Alexander Mackenzie ; Simon Fraser ; David Thompson ; George Simpson ; John McLoughlin ; James Douglas ; Artists & Scientists: Paul Kane ; Henry James Warre ; David Douglas ; John Scouler ; Thomas Drummond ; By Sea: John Jewitt ; John D'Wolf ; Camille de Roquefeuil ; Samuel Patterson ; William Sturgis ; Stephen Reynolds ; Edward Belcher ; Charles Wilkes ; Eugene Duflot de Mofras -- New Caledonians: Daniel Harmon ; John Clarke ; Alexander Ross ; John Tod ; John Work ; Peter Skene Ogden ; Samuel Black ; John McLean ; Robert Campbell ; Alexander Hunter Murray ; John Dunn ; Archibald McDonald ; Ranald Macdonald -- End of an Era: Narcissa Whitman -- App.: Fifty Forts.
Subject headings (LCSH): British Columbia--History--Sources.; British Columbia--History.; Explorers--Canada--Biography.; Fortification--British Columbia--History.; Fur trade--British Columbia--History--19th century--Sources.; Fur trade--British Columbia--History--19th century.; Fur traders' writings.; Fur traders--Canada--Biography.; Thompson, David, 1770-1857.