1790 |
John Tanner is taken captive by a Shawnee-Ottawa war party. |
1794–95 |
Tanner accompanies his Ottawa family on its migration to the Red River. |
1803 |
Louisiana Purchase.
John McLoughlin joins the North West Company. |
1804–6 |
Lewis and Clark expedition.
Tanner marries Red Sky of the Morning.
Stephen H. Long enters Dartmouth College. |
1806–8 |
The Shawnee Prophet Tenskwatawa sends messengers to the Northwest. |
1809 |
Tanner parts with Red Sky of the Morning and marries Therezia. |
1811 |
Lord Selkirk launches the Red River colony.
McLoughlin marries Marguerite McKay.
Tanner’s troubles with the medicine man Ais-kaw-ba-wis commence. |
1812–14 |
The United States and Britain are at war. |
1814 |
Pemmican Proclamation.
McLoughlin becomes a partner in the North West Company. |
1815 |
North West Company routs the Red River colony in the Pemmican War. |
1816 |
Battle of Seven Oaks (June).
North West Company surrenders Fort William to Selkirk (August).
Tanner guides Selkirk’s men from Rainy Lake to Red River (December).
Long explores the Illinois country. |
1817 |
Long visits the Sioux (summer) and the Osage (fall). |
1818 |
Tanner journeys to Kentucky and reunites with his white family.
McLoughlin is tried on charges of conspiracy in the Seven Oaks affair. |
1819 |
Long marries Martha Hodgkis, leads expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
Tanner returns to his Ottawa-Ojibwa family. |
1820 |
Long completes expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
Tanner journeys to Kentucky again, this time with Therezia and children.
McLoughlin goes to London to bargain with the Hudson’s Bay Company. |
1821 |
Union of the Hudson’s Bay and North West companies (March). |
1822 |
McLoughlin is appointed chief factor for the Rainy Lake district.
Tanner works for the American Fur Company post across the river. |
1823 |
Tanner goes to Red River to claim daughters by first marriage (May–June).
Tanner is ambushed and shot, then found and taken to Rainy Lake (July).
Long, on the northern expedition, arrives at Rainy Lake (August 31). |