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1916 1918 Letters to Kenneth McAffee Ralston
A packet of letters sent to son on the farm from family during World War 1. Especially touching to learn about his mother's life during a war when her oldest son was away in the trenches of France. And then learn about her son's hospital stay as a result of a gas attack by the enemy. At the same time, her mother, was stricken to bed and slowly dying. During this time the influenza epidemic was affecting family and friends. Often her husband was away all week in the Northwood's of Wisconsin working as a railway surveyor. Yet, there is no word of discouragement or complaint by her.
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Trading Beyond the Mountains
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson�s Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson�s Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson�s Bay Company�s employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.
