John C. Jackson

Albert A. Robbert

Katherine L. Kidder

Hannah Acheson-Field

Appointment scrolls are required for officers to enter the services and to take on service in a different grade, military service, or component. This report contains recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the scroll creation process.

Reducing Rework in Officer Appointment Processes

Lloyd Keith

Between an American ship's 1792 discovery of the Columbia River, the brief Astorian episode that followed, and the 1821 transfer of North West Company operations to the Hudson's Bay Company, one might presume nothing of consequence happened in the Pacific Northwest. In reality, it was a remarkable quarter-century, with two companies attempting large-scale corporate trapping and vying to command the region's fur trade. On one side were the North West Company's Montreal entrepreneurs, and on the other, American John Jacob Astor and his Pacific Fur Company. These fur moguls were businessmen first and explorers second, and their era is a story of grand risk in both fives and capital-a global mercantile initiative in which controlling the mouth of the Columbia River and developing the China market were major prizes. Traversing the world in search of profits, they gambled on the price of beaver pelts, purchases of ships and trade goods, international commerce laws, and the effects of war. Book jacket.

North West Company on the Pacific Slope 1800-1820

The Fur Trade Gamble

The story of Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company and a Cree woman, is a little-known, yet fascinating, part of the mythology of the northern fur trade. Caught between opposing sides of a dual heritage, Bird situated himself firmly in both worlds. Hired as an undercover 'confidential servant', he crossed into US territory to bring furs taken by Cree and Peigan hunters to his British employers. Later, he served both nations, and his tribal friends, in the negotiation of the 1855 Blackfoot peace treaty and the 1877 Canadian Treaty 7. In this creative non-fiction account, Jackson reconstructs the life of this intriguing individual, using materials from the Hudson's Bay Archives, the Montana Historical Society, and Bird's descendants living on the American Blackfoot Reservation in Browning, Montana.

John C. Jackson

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