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The fur hunters in the far West: A narrative of adventures in the Oregon and Rocky Mountains

Ross, Alexander: 1783-1856. Born in Scotland; to Canada, 1805; entered service of Pacific Fur Company, 1810, then North West Company, 1813; retired to Red River district, 1825; member of Council of Assiniboia; author (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Ross left Oregon in 1825 to settle in the Red River Settlement. The last two chapters give an account of his journey overland. Also published, with historical introduction and notes by Milo Milton Quaife, Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1924 (xxxix, 317p.); edited by Kenneth A. Spaulding, Norman, Ok.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956, [1961], and [1967] (xxiii, 304p.). Rewritten and included in Cecil Pearl Dryden, Up the Columbia for furs , Caldwell, Id.: Caxton Printers, 1950 (309p.).

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