Robert Campbell (1808-1894)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Coates, Ken
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
• Subjects: Biographies; Campbell; Robert; 1808-1894; Expeditions; Explorers; Fur trade; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Mapping; Tlingit Indians; Starvation; Fort Selkirk; Yukon; Frances Lake region; Pelly River; Yukon River region; Alaska/Yukon; Arctic; Dease Lake; Fort Liard; Freed; Liard; tlingit; Yukon river; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65193

. Campbell spent two unproductive years in the Dease Lake area, trying to break the Russian American Fur Company's hold on the interior fur trade. An agreement between the H.B.C. and R.A.F.C. in 1839 freed Campbell to turn his attentions northward. Thomas Simpson and Peter Warren Dease had, in...