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New Light on the Early History of the Greater
Northwest Chapter 3 - The Park River Post 1800-1801 |
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Alexander Henry kept a a very fine journal. Easy reading. Anyone familiar with the Drayton area along the Red River will feel right at home with his chapter on the Park River Post. You'll even recognize many of the places he talks about. David Thompson's comments help tie together the original lay of the land with the later day geography. Later day meaning the later 1800's. Interesting to note, if you super-imposed the town of St. Andrews on a map that contained the location of Henry's post, you would find the post would have been located in approximately the center of the town. Today, neither the town or the post exist.
Download or read online Chapter 3, of Volume I, of the journal of Alexander Henry, covering the establishment of the Park River Trading Post. I've broken the chapter into five parts, due to the large file size of the entire chapter. The files are in pdf format, which requires Adobe Reader. If you don't have Adobe Reader, you can download it for free by clicking here....ADOBE READER DOWNLOAD. Be patient, it takes a few seconds to connect to the Adobe site. If you'd like a copy of the entire chapter in a single file, contact me. and I will make it available for download via ftp, or if you suck up big time, I'll send you a copy on CD Rom.
| Part 1 | 6.33 MB | Sep 4 - Sep 16 1800 |
| Part 2 | 6.05 MB | Sep 17 - Oct 17 1800 |
| Part 3 | 4.00 MB |
Oct 18 - Nov 10 1800 |
| Part 4 | 5.57 MB |
Nov 10 -Dec 20 1800 |
| Part 5 | 6.32 MB | Dec 21 1800 -May 22 1801 |
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