New light on the early history of the greater Northwest
Subtitle: the manuscript journals of Alexander Henry, fur trader of the Northwest Company, and of David Thompson, official geographer and explorer of the same company, 1799-1814 : exploration and adventure among the Indians on the Red, Saskatchewan, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers
By: edited with copious critical commentary by Elliott Coues ... ; in three volumes.
Contributors: Thompson, David, 1770-1857.; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899, ed.; Harper, Francis P. 1856?-1932, publisher.; Meyers, Jacob Allen, 1855-1925, signer.; Vincent, W. D. former owner.; Burgess, Edwin H., donor.; Pacific Northwest History Collection.
Publisher: Francis P. Harper
Published: 1897
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: North West Company; Indians of North America -- Canada; Indians of North America -- Northwestern States; Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel; Northwestern States -- Description and travel
Other titles: Henry and Thompson journals.; Manuscript journals of Alexander Henry, fur trader of the Northwest Company, and of David Thompson, official geographer and explorer of the same company.; New light on the greater Northwest.
Notes: "Edition limited to eleven hundred copies. Nos. 1 to 100 on handmade paer. Nos. 101 to 1100 on fine book paper"--cf. verso half-title page, v. 1.

Listed in: The Washington 89 / by George H. Tweney.

Smith, C. W. Pacific Northwest (3rd ed.), 4350.

WSU MASC copy 2 signed on verso half-title page v. 1 and on front flyleaf v. 2: "Jacob A. Meyers, Meyers Falls Wash, 8/25/05".

WSU MASC copy 2 has annotations in two different hands.

WSU MASC has copies no. 683 and 856.

WSU MASC copy 2 donated by W. D. Vincent.

WSU MASC copy 1 donated by Edwin H. Burgess.

WSU MASC copies are: c. 1: 002-103512661 - 002-103512687 ; c. 2: 002-101785889, v. 1 ; 002-101785905, v. 2 ;  002-101785921, v. 3.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. The Red river of the North; title: Vol. 2. The Saskatchewan and Columbia rivers; title: Vol. 3. Index and maps.