Book Description: Quebec: A.Côté et Cie., 1889-1890., 1890. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. ix, 154, 413, [2]incl. errata; vi, [blank leaf], 499. large folding coloured lithographed map. A very nice set in modern half hard-grained morocco. First Edition. A valuable collection of hitherto unpublished journals, accounts, and letters relating to the history of the North West Company and the state of the fur trade in the Canadian and American northwest and the Great Lakes, Upper Missouri and Rocky Mountain regions, including: Roderick McKenzie's Reminiscences, being chiefly a synopsis of letters from Sir Alexander Mackenzie; W.F.Wentzel's letters to R.McKenzie; John McDonnell's account of Red River (c. 1797); François Antoine Larocque's Missouri journal (1804-05); Simon Fraser's journal of a voyage from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast (1808); Samuel Wilcox's Narrative of circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esq., a partner in the North-West Company (1819), James McKenzie's Some account of the King's Posts, the Labrador coast and, Journal of a canoe trip through those countries, in 1808, John Johnston's description of the country around Lakes Superior and Huron (1809), Peter Grant on the Sauteax Indians (1804); a list of 'bourgeois, commis, engagés et voyageurs' of the North West Company, &c. The large Map of the North West Territories was drawn by Gustave Rinfret. The collection was originally conceived and begun by Roderick McKenzie, who retired from service with the North West Company in 1806, but it was considerably expanded by his son-in-law Masson, who has also provided an introduction, annotations, and short biographies, all of which greatly enhance the value of the work.