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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsDramatis Personae
Introduction: Bon Voyageur
Chapter One: "Oh Caledonia, Stern and Wild": Duncan McGillivray, Simon Fraser, 1793-1808
Chapter Two: Into a Heart of Darkness: David Thompson
Chapter Three: Competing for the Columbia: North West Company on a Slippery Pacific Slope
Chapter Four: "Doing Indian Business": Spokane House and Okanogan
Chapter Five: War and Robbery at Astoria
Chapter Six: "a dull sailer": The Tardy Voyage of the Isaac Todd, 1812
Chapter Seven: The Early "Adventures to China"
Chapter Eight: Canton and Return, 1814-1815
Chapter Nine: Maritime and Marital Activities of the "other" Columbia
Chapter Ten: Final Attempts at Shipping: The Voyage of the Colonel Allan, 1815-1817
Chapter Eleven: "A Place so Dull and Dreary": The Interior Fur Trade
Chapter Twelve: Reforms and Unconvinced Reformers
Chapter Thirteen: Genesis of McKenzie's Snake Brigades
Chapter Fourteen: The Restoration of Astoria
Chapter Fifteen: Fort Nez Perces and the Snake Country Hunting Brigades
Chapter Sixteen: "We cannot blame ourselves therefore": A Financial Failure
Chapter Seventeen: Revelations of Character
Chapter Eighteen: Freemen
Chapter Nineteen: The Human Legacy
Appendix A: Columbia People
Appendix B: Business Records
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
