A terrible thing was done between 1793 and 1805. The mountains were broken open from East to West. Alexander Mackenzie’s Map of the End of the World The mountains had always been […]
41. Breaking Through the Mountains and Breaking the World
36. Alliances and the Mountains: War by Other Means, Part 3.
To understand why the Hudson Bay Company might have wanted to destroy the stock of beavers in the Snake River country, it’s helpful to go back to 1809, when John Jacob Astor, […]
27. Manipulating the French in the Northwest
The last time we were together, I spoke as a land of grass and rocks, enslaved to inter-human relations west of the Rocky Mountains. There’s a story out this way, that people […]
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