Edited by Barbara Belyea
David Thompson was one of the most
important surveyors of North America. He mapped the Great Lakes, the Saskatchewan
River and the Columbia
watershed, just to name a few. Thompson wrote
a retrospective memoir of his adventures, but it is his journals that really
tell us about his trials and his achievements. Extensive notes accompany the Columbia
Journals providing context for Thompson’s own account allowing the reader
to more fully understand his role in the history of the west.
