Frederick Van Voorhies Holman

Name: The Discovery and Exploration of the Fraser River
Author: Frederick Van Voorhies Holman

The Discovery and Exploration of the Fraser River (1909)

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“The Discovery and Exploration of the Fraser River”, published in 1909, is a work by Frederick Van Voorhies Holman. It explores elements such as the Columbia River, Simon Fraser and the Fraser River.

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Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, The Discovery and Exploration of the Fraser River (1909)

“ In this one hundred years since Simon Fraser's exploration of the Fraser River, the whole Pacific Northwest has grown Wonderfully in population and in civilization. The days of centennials, beginning with that of Gray's discovery of the Columbia River, show that while the long ago of this part of the continent is comparatively new, its traditions are those of a hardy, a brave, and an intrepid people. ”

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Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, The Discovery and Exploration of the Fraser River (1909)

“ Besides this, steps which are formed like a ladder or the shrouds of a ship, by poles hanging to one another and crossed at certain distances with twigs, the whole suspended from the top to the foot of immense precipices and fastened at both extremities to stones and trees, furnish a safe and convenient passage to the natives; but we, who had not had the advantages of their education and experience, were often in imminent danger when obliged to follow their example. ”

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Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, The Discovery and Exploration of the Fraser River (1909)

“ Simon Fraser was one of the intrepid explorers and hardy pioneers of the Pacific Northwest, men who found the way and showed others where and how to follow. The armies of occupation and of civilization followed slowly on. In a few years he was succeeded by the great leaders and successful furtraders of the Hudson's Bay Company. At the old, the original Vancouver, on the Columbia River, came and ruled. Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon, James Douglas, afterwards knighted, and Peter Skene Ogden, all held in grateful memory in Oregon and Washington. ”

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Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, The Discovery and Exploration of the Fraser River (1909)

“ Mackenzie had turned back because he had found the river so dangerous to navigate. The Indians along the river below he knew were of a treacherous and warlike character. Fraser had no guide. He made very careful preparations for his journey. The expedition consisted of twenty-one men besides himself, in four canoes. The exact day that the expedition started is in doubt, but it is not material. It probably left Fort George on the Tacoutche, which I shall hereinafter call the Fraser, on May 28, 1808. At the outset one of his canoes was almost wrecked at Fort George Canyon. ”

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Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, The Discovery and Exploration of the Fraser River (1909)

“ There is no other large river on the Pacific Slope so terrible or so dangerous to follow as the Fraser, unless it be that part of the Snake River between Huntington, Oregon, and Lewiston, Idaho, along which Wilson Price Hunt and his party wandered so helplessly and almost hopelessly in the fall and winter of 1811. ”

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Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, The Discovery and Exploration of the Fraser River (1909)

“ So he placed his canoes on scaffolds and cached a part of his supplies. The whole party then proceeded on foot, carrying heavy packs, occasionally traveling by water in canoes hired from the Indians. June 26 Fraser wrote in his Journal:
"As for the road by land we could scarcely make our way with even only our guns. I have been for a long period among the Rocky Mountains, but have never seen anything like this country. It is so wild that I cannot find words to describe our situation at times. We had to pass where no human being should venture ”

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