First across the continent : Sir Alexander Mackenzie /
Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled link to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by canoe and portage, across the uncharted rivers, valleys, and mountains of North America. Mackenzie's 1789 journey to the Arctic Ocean and his arduous jo...
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
c1997.
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| Series: | The Oklahoma western biographies ;
v. 14. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Lords of Lakes and Forests
- 2. A Career in the Wilderness
- 3. The River of the West and the Western Sea
- 4. The Quest: To the Arctic
- 5. The Quest: To the Pacific
- 6. Schemes and Dreams
- 7. The Legacy and the Canadian Frontier
- App. 1. Mackenzie Place-Names
- App. 2. Mackenzie's Advice to Lt. John Franklin, R.N., 1819.