Gough, Barry M.

First across the continent : Sir Alexander Mackenzie / Sir Alexander Mackenzie by Barry Gough. - Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1997. - xxi, 232 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. - The Oklahoma western biographies ; v. 14 .

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.

Adult

0771034067


Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820.
Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820.


Explorers--Biography.--Northwest, Canadian
Fur traders--Biography.--Northwest, Canadian
Fur trade--History.--Northwest, Canadian
Indians of North America--History.--Northwest, Canadian
Explorers--Biography.
Fur traders--Biography.
Fur trade--History.
Indians of North America--History.--Canadian Northwest


Northwest, Canadian--Discovery and exploration.
Canadian Northwest--Exploration.

F1060.7.M1783 / G68 1997

971.2/01/092 B