Sources of the river: tracking David Thompson across western North America
Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, History, United States history, Canadian history, Adventurers and explorers
Human-narrated audio
Summary
From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the inland Northwest. Thompson was the first person to chart the entire length of… the Columbia River, and his wilderness expeditions have become the stuff of legend. For high school and adult readers