Freshwater passages [electronic resource] : the trade and travels of Peter Pond / David Chapin.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780803253414
- 0803253419
- 9780803253476
- F1060.7 .P+
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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