Alexander Henry, the Elder--so named to distinguish him from his son, Alexander, and from his nephew, Alexander Henry, the Younger, who also kept memorable journals of his twenty-three years in the fur trade with the North West Company--is remembered today principally for his account of sixteen important years in his life and in Canadian history. Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories, Between the Years 1760 and 1776 was first published in 1809 and has since been published and reprinted in many versions, some of them abridged, with the first edition edited and corrected by an unknown hand to smooth the rough edges of Henry's style. The importance of Henry's account of his travels, which he divided into two parts, lies not so much in its documentary accuracy--there are errors in chronology, and his estimates of distances between points in his travels are sometimes inaccurate--as in its vivid portrayal...