The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau - Paperback
by Jack Nisbet
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Washington State University PressISBN-13:9780874222852ISBN-10:874222850UPC:9780874222852Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Adventurers & Explorers, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturyAward:2005 Idaho Library Association Book Award Nominee - Outstanding Contribution AwardSize:10.50 x 8.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SC53XG99VV
Between 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the entire 1,250-mile course of the Columbia River. In succeeding years he distilled his mathematical notations from dozens of journal notebooks into the first accurate maps of a vast portion of the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Washington State University PressISBN-13:9780874222852ISBN-10:874222850UPC:9780874222852Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Adventurers & Explorers, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturyAward:2005 Idaho Library Association Book Award Nominee - Outstanding Contribution AwardSize:10.50 x 8.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.6006Product ID:SC53XG99VV
Publisher: Washington State University Press
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🏆 2005 Idaho Library Association Book Award Nominee - Outstanding Contribution Award
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