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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 as a partner in Montreal's North West Company and as mentor to Alexander Mackenzie, who journeyed down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Sea. Knowing eighteenth-century North America on a scale that few others did, Pond drew some of the earliest maps of western Canada. In this m |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pond, Peter, 1740-1807.
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Pond, Peter, 1740-1807
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Pond, Peter, 1740-1807 fast |
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Fur traders -- Canada, Western -- Biography
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Fur trade -- Northwest, Canadian
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Explorers -- Northwest, Canadian -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Adventurers & Explorers.
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Explorers
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Fur trade
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Fur traders
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Canada -- Canadian Northwest
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Western Canada
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803253414 |
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0803253419 |
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1306799740 |
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9781306799744 |
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9780803253476 |
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0803253478 |
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