 | 1913 - 350 páginas
...greatest interest for us. With seven men and two Simpoil Indians, he started from Kettle Falls July 3, "down the Columbia river to explore this river in...passage for the interior trade with the Pacific Ocean." The first night was spent with the Simpoil Indains, three-quarters of a mile up the San Poil river... | |
 | Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, William L. Lang - 1991 - 484 páginas
...North West Company instructions, Thompson set out on what he called his "Voyage of a Summer Moon": "down the Columbia River to explore this river in...passage for the interior trade with the Pacific Ocean." At the strategic confluence of the Columbia and Snake rivers, he fastened a note to a pole bearing... | |
 | Jack Nisbet, David Thompson - 1994 - 292 páginas
...Pass with him, the Iroquois canoemen Charles and Ignace, and his old hand Michel Boulard. "July 3rd Wednesday After arranging several small affairs, we...this River, in order to open out a Passage for the Interiour Trade with the Pacific Ocean." As the Nor'Westers floated south from Ilthkoyape Falls, the... | |
 | John Logan Allen - 1997 - 684 páginas
...needed to complete his work on the Columbia system; as a fur trader, he had more economic motives: "We set off on a voyage down the Columbia River to explore...passage for the interior trade with the Pacific Ocean. "21 Only twelve days were required to journey from Kettle Falls down the Columbia to the Pacific: through... | |
 | James R. Gibson - 1997 - 308 páginas
...system. In the summer of 1811 Thompson with nine men (including two Indians) embarked at Kettle Falls "to explore this River, in order to open out a Passage for the Interiour Trade with the Pacific Ocean." 7 That same summer the annual meeting of the NWC had passed... | |
 | Richard Mackie - 1997 - 450 páginas
...Thompson reached the mouth of the Columbia on 15 July 1811, having met his object of exploring the river 'to open out a passage for the interior trade with the Pacific Ocean.'32 However, Thompson, who carefully mapped the southern interior and opened several posts, was... | |
 | D'Arcy Jenish - 2003 - 330 páginas
...canoe was completed on July 2, and the next day Thompson and his crew embarked on a historic journey "to explore this River in order to open out a Passage for the Interiour Trade with Pacific Ocean," as he put it in his journal that day. They carried with them the... | |
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We set off on a voyage down the Columbia River to explore this river in order to open out a passage for the interior trade with the Pacific Ocean. 