Freshwater Passages : The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond /

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Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740-1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chapin, David, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pond, Peter, > 1740-1807.
Fur traders.
Fur trade.
Explorers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Adventurers & Explorers.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Sales & Selling > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Fourrures > Commerce > Nord-Ouest canadien.
Explorers > Northwest, Canadian > Biography.
Fur trade > Northwest, Canadian.
Fur traders > Canada, Western > Biography.
Western Canada.
Canada > Canadian Northwest.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the Methye Portage
  • Provincial soldier
  • A Connecticut Yankee's pathway to Detroit
  • The Great Lakes trade
  • Imagining and exploring a continent
  • Mississippi trader
  • Partners and rivals
  • Saskatchewan River trader
  • North to Athabasca
  • Back east
  • The Churchill River and Athabasca, 1781-1784
  • Observing the Northwest
  • Voyages, schemes, and petitions
  • Athabasca, 1785-1788
  • Final explorations
  • Return
  • A new world.

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