Exile in the Wilderness - The Biography of Chief Factor Archibald McDonald 1790-1853
by Cole, Jean Murray
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good, dust jacket only
- ISBN 10
- 0887680844
- ISBN 13
- 9780887680847
- Seller
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Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Don Mills, Ontario: Burns & MacEachern. Good, dust jacket only. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0887680844 . "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 .
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 863j0407
- Title
- Exile in the Wilderness - The Biography of Chief Factor Archibald McDonald 1790-1853
- Author
- Cole, Jean Murray
- Illustrator
- Loates, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, dust jacket only
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0887680844
- ISBN 13
- 9780887680847
- Publisher
- Burns & MacEachern
- Place of Publication
- Don Mills, Ontario
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0887680844, McDonald, Archibald, 1790-1853, Fur Traders - Canada - Biography, The West, Canadian - Biography, Hudson's Bay Company - Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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