Fur trader and explorer David Thompson traveled from Hudson's Bay to the Pacific Ocean and along the meandering Columbia River. making maps that were unsurpassed for a hundred years. His journals were some of the earliest descriptions of what is now British Columbia, Montana, Idaho and Washington state and the native people who live there. This is his story, filmed where it all took place.
Fur trader and explorer David Thompson traveled from Hudson's Bay to the Pacific Ocean and along the meandering Columbia River. making maps that were unsurpassed for a hundred years. His journals were some of the earliest descriptions of what is now British Columbia, Montana, Idaho and Washington state and the native people who live there. This is his story, filmed where it all took place.
