Download or read book First Crossing written by Derek Hayes and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Crossing recounts an adventure of epic proportions -- in equal parts romantic, historically significant and compelling. It is the story of Canada's most famous explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 became the first person to cross the continent of North America north of Mexico. With a mix of wonderfully readable text, historical and contemporary photographs, and archival maps and illustrations, here is fresh insight into what drove Mackenzie to undertake his dramatic and dangerous quest for the Pacific Ocean, and how his daring secured Canada's legacy.
Download or read book Alexander Mackenzie Explorer written by James K. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer and North West Company fur trader of 18th century Canada, who discovered the Mackenzie River, and who was the first man to reach the Pacific overland north of Mexico. Includes maps, photographs, list of Indian groups encountered by Mackenzie, and bibliography.
Download or read book First Across the Continent written by Barry M. Gough and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled link to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by canoe and portage, across the uncharted rivers, valleys, and mountains of North America. Mackenzie's 1789 journey to the Arctic Ocean and his arduous journey to the Pacific in 1793 predate the Lewis and Clark expedition. By the age of thirty-one, Alexander Mackenzie had become the first man to cross North America from the northwestern hub of the interior trade, Lake Athabasca, to the Pacific Ocean. He had opened the continent to trade and exploration. In his research, Barry Gough traveled from Mackenzie's birthplace to his tomb and from Montreal to both the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific. He takes the reader along with Mackenzie on his hazardous travels and voyages, using contemporary accounts to bring to life the perils faced by the young explorer. First Across the Continent reveals the international impact of Sir Alexander Mackenzie's expeditions and places him among the elite of New World Explorers, illuminating his vital role in the history of the fur trade and the American West.
Download or read book Alexander Mackenzie and the Explorers of Canada written by Georgia Xydes and published by New York : Chelsea House. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the explorations of Sir Alexander Mackenzie in Canada.
Download or read book First Across the Continent written by Barry M. Gough and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness
Download or read book First Man West written by Sir Alexander Mackenzie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Alexander Mackenzie written by Humphrey Hume Wrong and published by Toronto, Macmillan. This book was released on 1927-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography by Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Suitable grades 7 and up.
Download or read book Sir Alexander Mackenzie Explorer and Fur Trader written by Hume Wrong and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Download or read book First Across the Continent written by Noah Brooks and published by ICON Group International. This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magnificent Adventures of Alexander Mackenzie written by Noel B Gerson and published by Sapere Books. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the discovery of the long-sought Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean across North America.Although Mackenzie's journey to the Pacific Ocean preceded the Lewis and Clark expedition by twelve years he remains much less well-known. This biography restores Mackenzie to his rightful place in the pantheon of great American explorers and should be essential reading for all who enjoy accounts of expeditions into the Far West. On 10th October 1792, Alexander Mackenzie, a Scot born in a remote island of the Outer Hebrides, left Fort Chipewyan to begin his journey across the vast American wilderness to the Pacific coast. Mackenzie had left his Scottish home as a boy after his mother had passed away. Apprenticed to a fur trading company in Montreal he learnt how to survive in the brutal conditions of these uncharted territories. Learning from First Nations people that local rivers flowed to the northwest from Fort Chipewyan, Mackenzie began the first of his astounding exploratory journeys in July 1789, travelling on the river that would eventually be named in his honor all the way to the Arctic Ocean. Noel Gerson's The Magnificent Adventures of Alexander Mackenzie brings the magnitude of these exploratory journeys to life. He uncovers not only the fascinating figure of Mackenzie himself but also his travelling companions and the awe-inspiring landscapes through which they travelled. Gerson's "admiration for his subject is well-founded in this sturdy, steadily interesting, biography." Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Alexander Mackenzie s Voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1793 written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by New York : Citadel Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of Mackenzie's journals of expeditions from Lake Athabasca to the Arctic Ocean and from Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean, first published in 1801. Includes account of development of fur trade by the Northwest Company.
Download or read book Voyages from Montreal on the River St Laurence written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by Canada? : s.n.. This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexander Mackenzie written by Natalie Hyde and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disappointment River written by Brian Castner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find. Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of globalization and climate change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides, to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named "Disappointment." Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money.
Download or read book The Journals of Alexander MacKenzie written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 2001-06-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Mackenzie was the first man to cross continental North America, a trip he accomplished by canoe ... 12 years before Lewis and Clark.
Download or read book Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexander Mackenzie and the North West written by Roy Daniells and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
