Exploring The Northwest Territory, Sir Alexander Mackensie's Journal Of A Voyage By Bark Canoe From Lake Athabasca To The Pacific Ocean In The Summer Of 1789

MCDONALD, T.H. [EDITOR].

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966, Norman

First edition. Cloth, 133 pp., illustrated. Introduction. Addenda. Bibliography. Index. 2 maps. A well-edited account of MacKenzie's first major effort to discover a waterway to the Pacific. On June 3, 1789, twenty-five-year-old Alexander Mackenzie and a small party of frontiersmen left Fort Chippewyan in search of an all-water route through North America to the Pacific Ocean. Fine copy. Price-clipped dust jacket. Review copy with slip laid-in..