THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Once the outgoing York Factory Express reached Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla on the Columbia River, they entered a desert region where the river was clogged with rapids and rocks that slowed their journey east and north. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/second-leg/

Busy day! The #WallaWalla Public #Library is about to undergo a major renovation and close their building for a year, so today was a big goodbye to the old space!

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
From Fort #Vancouver #WA, the outgoing York Factory Express made their way upriver and through the mountains to Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla, on the first leg of the journey east to Hudson Bay. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/first-leg/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
IN 1849, HBC clerk Thomas Lowe travels in a boat up the Columbia River to Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla, but he is not going out of the territory with the York Factory Express (although he is following their route.) Instead, he is delivering goods and boat to the HBC post in the desert. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/up-the-columbia/

THREE JOURNEYS NORTH TO THE ARCTIC SEA:
Dysentery came in with the wagon trains that followed the #Oregon Trail, as we know. In 1846, measles also crossed the continent to California and infected thousands of Indigenous people. From the Sacramento River these diseases travelled north to Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla, and then north and west again to the northwest coast, the #Yukon, and beyond. #ThreeJourneysNorth #Journeys https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/measles-and-dysentery/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
North of Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla was the entrance to the spectacular Grand Coulee which led horsemen overland from the banks of the Columbia River south of its rapids, to Fort #Okanagan, on the Columbia's junction with the #Okanogan River. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #WestOfTheRockies https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/grand-coulee/

Rolling hills of Palouse stretching all the way till the horizon from Steptoe Butte.
#palouse #steptoebutte #wallawalla #rollinghills #easternwashington #washingtonstate #pnw #posse

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Rolling hills of Palouse stretching all the way till the horizon from Steptoe Butte.
#palouse #steptoebutte #wallawalla #rollinghills #easternwashington #washingtonstate #pnw #posse

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