admin | January 25, 2010
Carl Haywood of Thompson Falls (“Sometimes Only Horses to Eat”) sent this note in last Thursday: Wanted to share an exciting bit of information with friends and relatives I think might be interested. An hour ago I received an e-mail inviting me to present a paper on Explorer David Thompson (the subject of my book) [...]
admin | November 10, 2009
Thanks to Carl Haywood for tracking this down. If you missed the initial showing of the PBS documentary on David Thompson last week, here’s the info for the next one. If anybody knows when else and where else it’s showing, let me know. WHAT: Uncharted Territory: “David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau” WHEN: Wed, Nov [...]
admin | November 9, 2009
OK, does this sound familiar? Yesterday was a day of misty weather, cloudy but fine in the Thompson Falls area. Today is a fine day again, but unmisty and not so cloudy. It’s what folks in T-Falls are experiencing this morning in 2009, and what David Thompson encountered exactly 200 years. It wasn’t easy at [...]
admin | November 6, 2009
We’re following DT’s week-long journey up the Clark Fork from Lake Pend Orielle to establish Saleesh House near Thompson Falls. We find the party in what’s now the Noxon Reservoir, in the vicinity of Rock Island. Nov. 5 was a Sunday, “A day of much Snow & wet weather but mild – At 7 ½ [...]
admin | November 4, 2009
Nov. 4, 1809 — David Thompson’s expedition of traders left early from an overnight camp on the Clark Fork River at Herring (Heron) Rapids, near the Idaho-Montana border. According to “Sometimes Only Horses Eat,” Carl Haywood’s 2008 book about Thompson in western Montana, the traders reached the camp of an old friend, Jaco Finlay, at [...]
admin | November 4, 2009
Actually it’ll be Ritchie Doyle doing a Chautauqua performance as Thompson at the Travelers’ Rest Chapter’s monthly meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 5) at the Lolo Community Center. Doyle has created his Thompson character over the past few years after concentrating on Capt. William Clark during the Lewis and Clark bicentennial. Here’s the [...]
admin | November 3, 2009
A couple of significant milestones occurred this time of year in western Montana, one 200 years ago and the other 150. In 1809, still barely three years after Lewis and Clark vacated the premises, David Thompson headed up the Clark Fork River to set up the state’s first trading post near Thompson Falls. In 1859, [...]
admin | April 13, 2009
Granted, we can take centennials and bicentennials and sesquicentennials and the like too far. Every year there’s a crop of them. But consider 2009. – 400 years ago (1609), within a five-week summer span, Champlain journeyed onto the New York lake that bears his name and Henry Hudson floated into New York harbor, launching a [...]
admin | March 5, 2009
Who was the man who guided David Thompson to the Missoula Valley in 1812?
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