http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0224030
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alternative: The Home & Travellers Library Semi-Monthly. VIII
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
is part of: The Home & Travellers Library Semi-Monthly
creator: Dunn, John, active 1845
issued: 2016-02-09
issued: 1845
description: "'Does not contain the linguistics. Greatly inferior edition': Cowan. Reprinted in Smith's Weekly, vol. I, 1845, PP.382-416, ref. Pilling Wakashan, P.19."-- Strathern, G. M. , & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 81. Alternative title from cover page.
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extent: viii, 13-236, 8 pages : illustration, advertisements ; 16 cm
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note: :v_ » • ■fr4 '- VIII. ■^^^■HH mMM • THE OREGON TERRITORY, AND THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN FUR TRADE. WITH AN ACCOUNT OP THE HABITS AND CUSTOMS OP THE PRINCIPAL NATIVE TRIBES ON THE NORTHERN CONTIN^glT. BY JOHN DUNN, LATE OP THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY; EIGHT YEARS A RESIDENT IN THE COUNTRY. PHILADELPHIA: G. B. ZIEBER & CO. 1845. * 2> PI i C. SHERMAN, PRINTER £s n K PREFACE. I shall not encumber the reader with a tedious detail of my motives in publishing this work ; or of its scheme and plan. This is a kind of egotism, and cwnrymg favour with the reader, already carried to great excess. But I shall state a few facts—due to myself to give, and to the reader to know. Having been articled to the Hudson's Bay Company, I left my father's home in London, in their ship, the Ganymede, for their settlements on the Pacific. It is needless for me to give any account of our outward voyage (though I met with some strange adventures) to the Sandwich Islands—at which* we stopped for a short time; and thence to the Columbia river. Having arrived at the western head-quarters of the Company—Fort Vancouver ; on the northern shore of the river, ninety miles from its month—I was placed in the fort, in the situation of assistant storekeeper. After remaining in the fort nearly a year, I was commissioned to proceed northward, in t&e Company's ships, on trading and exploring expeditions; threading, in our various courses, the whole of the vast labyrinth of gulfs, sounds, straits, bays, and inlets, that interlace the whole of the Pacific shore, for many hundred miles inland, and along many degrees of latitude. Here I was in the character of trader and interpreter ; and assisted at the erection of several forts in various parts of the country, never before occupied. I then returned to the Columbia; and was placed, for some time, in charge of Fort George, near the mouth of the river—now an outpost attached to Vancouver—the famous 1* VI PREFACE. Astoria, so much vaunted of by the Americans, as thei…
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has type: Books
identifier: F880 .D93 1845
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0224030
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Dunn, John, active 1845
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subject: Fur trade--Oregon
subject: Fur trade--British Columbia
subject: Indians of North America--Northwest, Canadian
subject: Indians of North America--Northwestern States
subject: Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific
subject: Oregon Territory--History
subject: Northwestern States--History
subject: Northwest, Pacific--History
title: The Oregon Territory, and the British North American fur trade. With an account of the habits and customs of the principal Native tribes on the Northern continent. By John Dunn, late of the Hudson's Bay Company; eight years a resident in the country
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