| William F. Tolmie at Fort Nisqually: Letters, 1850-1853 Contributor(s): Anderson, Steve A. (Editor), Ramsey, Jerry V. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0874223717 ISBN-13: 9780874223712 Publisher: Washington State University Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Business - Literary Collections | Letters - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2019015010 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7" W x 9.9" (1.32 lbs) 302 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Scottish-born Hudson's Bay Company (HBe Chief Trader William Fraser Tolmie took charge of Fort Nisqually in 1943, but soon the International Boundary Treaty of 1846 between Great Britain and the United States spawned myriad legal and regulatory problems. In 2006, former Fort Nisqually Living History Museum manager Steve A. Anderson discovered volumes of Fort Nisqually's letter books at HBC Archives. He transcribed several, spanning from January 1850 to the threshold of Puget Sound's Indian War. The documents--more than 400 total--offer private conversations, weighty business discussions, gossip, political intrigue, patterns of commerce, deadly epidemics, and an eyewitness account of San Francisco's devastating fire, and present a rare British perspective on higher-level HBC and Puget Sound Agricultural Company (PSAe operations, as well as insight into conflicts that followed the 1846 treaty. |
Contributor Bio(s): Anderson, Steve A.: - Steve A. Anderson managed the Fort Nisqually Living History Museum for ten years. He has published multiple journal articles and books, including "Angus McDonald of the Great Divide: The Uncommon Life of a Fur Trader, 1816"€"1899." |