For further reading:

1) Bumsted, Jack M., 1999: Fur Trade Wars: the Founding of Western Canada. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications.
2) Burt, A. L., 1940: The United States, Great Britain, and British North America from the Revolution to the Establishment of Peace after the War of 1812. New Haven: Yale University Press.
3) Davidson, Gordon C., 1918: The North West Company. Berkeley: University of California Press.
4) Gough, Barry, 1997: First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
5) Fisher, Robin, 1936: The Western Prologue to the War of 1812. Missouri Historical Review 30 (3): 267-81.
6) Francis, Daniel, 1982: Battle for the West: Fur Traders and the Birth of Western Canada. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers.
7) Hubert-Robert, Régine, 1945: L'épopée de la fourrure. Montréal: éditions de l'Arbre.
8) Irving, Washington, 1836: Astoria; or Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains. London: Richard Bentley.
9) Pannekoek, Frits, 1987: Le commerce des fourrures et la société de l'ouest canadien, 1670-1870. Ottawa: La Société Historique du Canada.
10) Rich, E.E., 1976: The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
11) Rosemblum, Thomas, 1984: Pelts and Patronage: the Representations made by John Jacob Astor to the Federal Government Regarding his Fur Trade Interests in the Old Northwest, 1808-1818, PP 63-72, IN Thomas C. Buckley, ed., Rendezvous: Selected Papers of the Fourth North American Fur Trade Conference. St-Paul: North American Fur Trade Conference.
12) Rumilly, Robert, 1980: La Compagnie du nord-ouest: une épopée montréalaise. Montréal: Fides.
13) Savard, Rémi, 1994: Un projet d'état Indien indépendant à la fin du 18e siècle et le traité de Jay. Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 24 (4): 57-69.
14) Stevens, Wayne E., 1928: The Northwest Fur Trade, 1763-1800. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
15) Turner, Alan R., 1981: L'établissement des écossais dans l'Ouest, pp 96-115, IN Stanford W. Reid, ed., La tradition écossaise au Canada. Ottawa: Ministère des Approvisionnements et Services.
16) Wallace, Stewart W., 1934: Documents Relating to the North West Company. Toronto: The Champlain Society.
17) Wallace, Stewart W., 1954: The Pedlars from Québec and other Papers on the Nor'Westers. Toronto: The Ryerson Press.