First across the continent : Sir Alexander Mackenzie / by Barry Gough.
By: Gough, Barry M.
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BookSeries: The Oklahoma western biographies ; v. 14. Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1997Description: xxi, 232 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0771034067.Other title: Sir Alexander Mackenzie.Subject(s): Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820 | Explorers -- Northwest, Canadian -- Biography | Fur traders -- Northwest, Canadian -- Biography | Northwest, Canadian -- Discovery and exploration | Fur trade -- Northwest, Canadian -- History | Indians of North America -- Northwest, Canadian -- History | Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820 | Explorers -- Biography | Fur traders -- Biography | Canadian Northwest -- Exploration | Fur trade -- History | Indians of North America -- Canadian Northwest -- HistoryDDC classification: 971.2/01/092 | B Summary: A biography of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, a Scotsman who came to North America in the 1700s to pursue his fortune in the fur trade, drawing from Mackenzie's own journals and other documentary sources to tell of his travels and voyages throughout the unsettled continent.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.
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A biography of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, a Scotsman who came to North America in the 1700s to pursue his fortune in the fur trade, drawing from Mackenzie's own journals and other documentary sources to tell of his travels and voyages throughout the unsettled continent.
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