T is for Thompson, as in David. Easily the most admireable of the fur trading personnel who reached B.C. in the early 19th century, David Thompson is the subject of an important exhibition at the Spokane Museum as well as Jack Nisbet's The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau (WSU Press $29.95 US). 0-87422-285-0

[BCBW 2006]