The first Northwest Passage /
When Alexander Mackenzie arrived in Canada, he had very little money in his pocket. Within a very few years he was a prosperous fur trader with headquarters on remote Lake Athabasca. And it was from this vantage point that he made two great exploring expeditions, one to the Arctic Ocean, and the oth...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Company,
1960.
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| Series: | North Star books ;
20. |
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| Summary: | When Alexander Mackenzie arrived in Canada, he had very little money in his pocket. Within a very few years he was a prosperous fur trader with headquarters on remote Lake Athabasca. And it was from this vantage point that he made two great exploring expeditions, one to the Arctic Ocean, and the other over the Great Divide, and down other streams to the Pacific--having discovered the first canoe route to the Western Sea. |
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| Item Description: | Series advertisements on dust jacket. |
| Physical Description: | 183 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index. |