McKenzie, Charles. Journal of the Second, Third and Fourth Expeditions to the Missouri, 1805, 1806 with the Supplement to the Second Expedition. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0010

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McGill Fur Trade Project Number: MFTP 0010

Masson Number: MASS 2355b

Notes

References

A version of this text is published in L.R. Masson, Les Bourgeois de la compagnie du Nord-Ouest, (Québec: Imprimerie générale A. Coté, 1889-1890), vol. I, 315-393. Reprinted: New York: Antiquarian Press, 1960.

W. Raymond Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen, eds., Early fur trade on the Northern Plains : Canadian traders among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738-1818 : the narratives of John Macdonell, David Thompson, Francois-Antoine Larocque, and Charles McKenzie, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985), 221-296. See especially pp. 223-226.

See the related manuscripts MFTP 0008 (MASS 2355), MFTP 0009 (MASS 2355a) and MFTP 0011 (MASS 2355c).

Bibliographic Note(s)

48 leaves 24.9cm x 20.4cm formed from folded sheets. Wove paper; no watermark. Brown ink.

Editorial Note(s)

Generally good condition.

There is only one hand present in the manuscript and all emendations have been taken in to account and transcribed.

This manuscript is Wood/Thiessen Narrative A.

The text is written on the recto only of each leaf.

The use of upper and lower case “c”, “k”, “s”, and “w” has been standardized.