Voyages from Montreal on the river St Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the years 1789 and 1793. With a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country

Author: Alexander Mackenzie (c1764-1820) Year: 1801Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell, et al. by R. NoblePlace: New YorkDescription: [4]+viii+cxxxii+412+[2] pages with half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, title page, (3) large folding maps, and final errata pages. Quarto (10 7/8" x 8 7/8") bound in tree calf with gilt-titled red morocco label to the spine. (Sabin 43414; Howes M133) First Edition. Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America by a European in 1793. On behalf of the North West Company, Mackenzie journeyed to Lake Athabasca where, in 1788, he was one of the founders of Fort Chipewyan. He had been sent to replace Peter Pond, a partner in the North West Company. From Pond, he learned that the First Nations people understood that the local rivers flowed to the north-west. Thinking that it would lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska, he set out by canoe on the river known to the local Dene First Nations