Have used this source extensively - published in 1854.

Laurie Milne

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>From: George Myers <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Summertime...and the hunters are working their asses off...
>Date: Mard 09 mai 2000  06:37
>

> This is a little off target but we're always traveling from east to west. Has
> anyone heard of this work?
>
> "A Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America" by Gabriel Franchere edited by
> Milo Milton Quaife c) The Citadel Press, New York 222 Park Avenue South, NY,
> NY published simultaneously in Canada by George J. McLeod Ltd., 73 Bathurst
> St., Toronto 2B, Ontario. Printed by Noble Offset Printers, New York.
> Manufactured in the United States of America.
>
> "An early nineteenth-century journal of an astonishing voyage from Montreal
> to the Columbia River via Cape Horn, including descriptions of the court of
> Tamehamema of Hawaii and the founding of Fort Astoria."
>
> From the jacket:
>
>      By 1811 the American fur trade, under the aegis of John Jacob Astor, had
> burgeoned into a tremendous enterprise. One of Astor's associates was the
> Montreal-born Canadian, Gabriel Franchere.
>      Franchere kept a diary of one of the most extraordinary voyages ever
> experienced. Leaving Montreal in 1811, he arrived in New York, where he and a
> group of other young Americans and Canadians shipped out on the vessel
> Tonquin, bound for the Pacific Northwest. The thrilling, danger-packed voyage
> around Cape Horn to the rugged Pacific Coast included a stop-over in Hawaii,
> where the voyagers were royally entertained at the court of Tamehamema.
>      Franchere provides us with colorful descriptions of the founding of Fort
> Astoria on the mouth of the Columbia River and its subsequent surrender to
> British forces during the War of 1812.
>      The book ends with an account of the overland return to Montreal -- a
> journey as intrepid and dramatic as the sea voyage out.
>      This volume is a reprint of the edition published in 1854.
>
> I don't know if anyone is familiar with this work but the passage back is
> almost unbelievable, most covered in canoe with very few portages of any
> great distance, the largest would be from Montreal to the Upper Champlain to
> arrive back in New York. Back in Graduate School it boggled my mind, the
> travel across the northern North American continent by canoe!
>
> Sincerely,
> George J. Myers, Jr.