Table of Contents

Foreword
Chapter I: Columbia River Beginnings
Chapter II: At Fort Vancouver
Chapter III: Exciting Travels for Ranald
Chapter IV: Red River Settlement
Chapter V: Rebellion
Chapter VI: MacDonald Sails the Seven Seas
Chapter VII: Whaling on Japan
Chapter VIII: Ainu Capture MacDonald
Chapter IX: Ranald Taken South by Junk
Chapter X: Prisoner at Matsumae
Chapter XI: Imprisoned at Nagasaki
Chapter XII: Development of Dutch Learning
Chapter XIII: Ranald the Teacher
Chapter XIV: Preble to the Rescue
Chapter XV: Sailor and Gold Digger
Chapter XVI: Home lo Canada
Chapter XVII: In Japan, Meanwhile
Chapter XVIII: Perry Returns
Chapter XIX: MacDonald in the Cariboo
Chapter XX: Barkerville, the Big Strike of the Cariboo
Chapter XXI: Moriyama Serves at USA-Japan Treaty Negotiations
Chapter XXII: Ranald's Interpreters Continue to Serve
Chapter XXIII: Ranald Continues His Explorations
Chapter XXIV: MacDonald and the "Mile Houses"
Chapter XXV: Ranald's Adventures and the Canadian Pacific Railroad
Chapter XXVI: Ranching at Fort Colvile
Chapter XXVII: Ranald MacDonald's Last Days
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jo Ann Roe published eight books and more than 400 articles on regional travel and history in scores of magazines and newspapers, winning awards from the Washington Press Association, the National Federation of Press Women, the National Writer's Club, as well as the Washington Governor's Writers Award for her biography of Frank Matsura.

Reviews

"Another outstanding contribution to the record of Northwest history by Washington State University Press."--Associated Press

"As Jo Ann Roe ably demonstrates, Ranald MacDonald should have been knighted. Few individuals have greater accomplishments and fewer accolades to their credit. An incurable traveler in the mold of Sir Richard Burton, MacDonald fit the profile of the classic nineteenth-century explorer of distant lands and people. The author vividly depicts the scenes of a bygone world--whaling ships on the high seas; regal, isolated Japan; the teeming docks of Hong Kong; Hawaiian royalty and far-off Guam; gold rushes in Australia and the Cariboo, British Columbia; South American Ports; Rome, Paris, and London; unexplored Vancouver Island; and the bustling trading post at Fort Colville, Washington Territory."--Craig Holstine, author, Forgotten Corner: A History of the Colville National Forest, Washington