IN 1849, GOVERNOR EDEN COLVILE CAME TO THE WEST, and rode over the Brigade Trail from #FortStJames to #Kamloops. South of Kamloops he mounted the Tulameen Plateau by riding up Colins Gulch, and made his way over the mountain to #FortLangley. #AmWriting #History #TheHBCBrigades https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/collins-gulch/

JOACHIM LAFLEUR WAS THE MAN IN CHARGE AT FORT OKANAGAN in the 1840s. He was Anderson's assistant in the Brigades to #Fort Langley, and the one thing that we all know about the man was that he was very afraid of snakes! #TheHBCBrigades #AmWriting #History https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/joachim-lafleur/

JOHN LEE LEWES, WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF FORT COLVILE IN MID-1840'S, was a man of the theatre who brought his theatrical costumes west into the HBC territory west of the Rocky Mountains. #TheHBCBrigades #AmWriting #History https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fur-trade-fop/

IN 1848, CHIEF FACTOR PETER SKENE OGDEN REPORTED on the California gold rush, and its effects on the #Oregon Country and the HBC. Both American settlers in the Willamette Valley and HBC men at Fort #Vancouver #WA, deserted their posts to rush to the gold fields. #History #AmWriting #TheHBCBrigades #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/california-gold-rush/

A YOUNG CLERK WHO TRAVELLED OUT IN THE 1848 BRIGADES TO KAMLOOPS kept a journal of the journey, and the stories told of the many disasters that occurred along the river and on the high ridge that separated it from #Kamloops. #TheHBCBrigades #AmWriting #History https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/henry-newsham-peers-journal/

IN 1848, THE INCOMING BRIGADE TRAVELED OVER THE NEW BRIGADE TRAIL, from #FortLangley to the First Nations village of Kequeloose, on the Fraser River near where the canyons began. The trail was barely fit to travel over, and disasters were not only inevitable, but they took place. #AmWriting #History #TheHBCBrigades https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/1848-brigade/

THE MEASLES EPIDEMIC OF 1847, WHICH KILLED SO MANY Indigenous people, resulted in a brutal massacre of many of the Missionaries at Waiilatpu Mission, near Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla #WA #AmWriting #History #TheHBCBrigades #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/waiilatpu-massacre/

A LIVE THREATENING MEASLES EPIDEMIC came north to the Columbia district with Indigenous men who visited Sutters Fort, on the Sacramento River. The destructive epidemic killed thousands of Indigenous people in the area, and travelled north as far as the Yukon! #TheHBCBrigades #AmWriting #History https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/measles-1847/

PEU-PEU-MOX-MOX WAS THE INDIGENOUS CHIEF OF THE WALLA WALLAS, a man who was respected but who still was given the name of Serpent Jaune by the voyageurs. It is probable that his Indigenous name translated as Yellowbird. Sadly, Serpent Jaune died a horrible death in the hands of the American settlers and soldiers. #AmWriting #History #TheHBCBrigades https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/peu-peu-mox-mox/