Freshwater passages : the trade and travels of Peter Pond / David Chapin.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780803253414
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- 1306799740
- 9781306799744
- 9780803253476
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- Pond, Peter, 1740-1807
- Pond, Peter, 1740-1807
- Pond, Peter, 1740-1807
- Fur traders -- Canada, Western -- Biography
- Fur trade -- Northwest, Canadian
- Explorers -- Northwest, Canadian -- Biography
- Fourrures -- Commerce -- Nord-Ouest canadien
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Adventurers & Explorers
- Explorers
- Fur trade
- Fur traders
- Canada -- Canadian Northwest
- Western Canada
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- F1060.7.P78 C48 2014eb
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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.
Print version record.
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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