Author: COLE, JEAN MURRAY
Title: Exile in the Wilderness - the Biography of Chief Factor Archibald Mcdonald 1790-1853
Description: Don Mills, Ontario: Burns & MacEachern, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0887680844. Illustrated by Loates, Jim. "Drawing extensively from Archibald McDonald's letters, reports, and diaries, Jean Murray Cole lets the subject of this biography tell his own story: of the enmity between the Red River settlers and the violent, vindictive Nor'Westers, who were determined to destroy the Red River colony; of his years of service in the Hudson's Bay Company, where he became commander of forts on the Lower Fraser and Columbia rivers; and of the long canoe voyages through the untamed Canadian wilderness." - dust jacket. pp. xviii, [2], 268. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Map endpapers. Black and white plates. Book clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this extraordinary life story. ; Endpaper Maps; 8vo. Good, dust jacket only .

Keywords: 0887680844 1790 1853 Fur Traders Canada West Hudson's British History