| Title Statement |
The HBC brigades: culture, conflict and perilous journeys of the fur trade / Nancy Marguerite Anderson. |
| Alternative Title(s) |
Hudson's Bay Company brigades |
| Author |
Anderson, Nancy Marguerite, 1946- |
| Publication |
Vancouver, BC: Ronsdale Press,[2024]©2024 |
| Extent of Item |
ix, 316 pages |
| ISBN |
9781553807018 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number |
pr07481785 |
| General Notes |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"A lively recounting of the tough men and heroic but overworked packhorses who broke open BC to the big business of the 19th century fur trade. Facing a grueling thousand-mile trail, the brigades of the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) pushed onward over mountains and through ferocious river crossings to reach the isolated fur-trading posts. But it wasn't just the landscape the brigades faced, as First Nations people struggled with the desire to resist, or assist, the fur company's attempts to build their brigade trails over the Aboriginal trails that led between Indigenous communities, which surrounded the trading posts. Nancy Marguerite Anderson recounts how the devastating Cayuse War of 1847, forced the HBC men over a newly-explored overland trail to Fort Langley. The journey was a disaster-in-waiting."-- |
| Subjects & Genres |
| By Topic |
Fur trade--History--19th century--Canada, Western |
| Fur traders--History--19th century--Canada, Western |
| Indigenous peoples--History--19th century--Canada, Western |
| Pack transportation--History--19th century--Canada, Western |
| First Nations trails--History--19th century--Canada, Western |
| By Name |
Hudson's Bay Company |
