A circa 1850 daguerreotype captured Peter Skene Ogden (1794-1854) throughout a go to to New York. Ogden carried out George Simpson’s “fur desert” coverage by over-trapping beavers within the Snake River basin to maintain out American mountain males. His annual expeditions additionally equipped vital geographic data to London cartographers. (Wikipedia)
As the pinnacle of the Hudson’s Bay Firm’s Columbia Division, George Simpson understood American settlers adopted missionaries who adopted fur trappers. Seeing his Columbia territory as rightly British, he took steps to cease, or at the very least gradual, the primary stage of the development. That the HBC had absorbed John Jacob Astor’s Northwest Firm and plenty of of its American trappers didn’t trouble him.
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