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David Thompson: Map Makers Eye
| Date From: | 10/8/2005 |
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| Date To: | 9/3/2006 |
| Summary: | In 1807, Canadian David Thompson crested the Continental Divide to begin a five-year stay on the Columbia Plateau. He not only surveyed the entire length of the Columbia River, but also built the fur trade with Native tribes, and his arrival was a catalyst for revolutionary change in the Inland Northwest. This exhibit offers visitors a first-hand sense of Thompson's journeys, through his journals, maps, and mountain sketches; field sketches by Paul Kane and Henry James Warre; surveying instruments from the Smithsonian Institution; and Plateau Indian and fur trade artifacts. |
| Related Objects: |
251.24 (Knife, Crooked, "Fur Trade Crooked Knife", 1800-1825)
285.2 (Scale, "Beaver Fur Scale", 1810 - 1850)
600.1 (Trunk, "Archibald MacDonald's Personal Trunk", ca. 1840)
691.3 (Trunk, "Spokane House Fur Trade Trunk", 1810-1826)
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