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David Thompson - The Saleesh House Period
"Sometimes Only Horses to Eat"
by
Carl W. Haywood
| It's Here! Now shipping. Get your copy now. 392 pages of history. The first edition print run includes 2000 softcover copies PLUS a collectors edition of 250 signed and numbered hardcover copies. The first 250 softcover copies sold will also be signed and numbered. |
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| DAVID THOMPSON was a fur trader-explorer-surveyor for the North West Company. In 1807, he crossed the Rocky Mountains for the first time. In 1809, he built two small posts along the Clark's Fork River in what are now Montana and Idaho, trading primarily with the Flathead Indians up and down the river he called the Saleesh. The following year his men built another trading post on the Spokane River in eastern Washington. Thompson was the first white man to establish trading posts along what he called the Saleesh River. He remained in charge of the NWCo's trading operations west of the Rockies until his final departure from the west in 1812. This book focuses primarily on his travels across North America during that period of his western adventures. |
| WRITTEN WITH A DIFFERENT SLANT: The author spent much of his life in the forests of the west as a professional forester and surveyor. In Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness Area he worked as a big game packer and hunting guide. Like many interested in the fur trade phenomenon, he spent several years actively involved in fur trade re-enactment, better known as "buckskinning". |
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