170 Sir ALEXANDER MACKENZIE

tions of the State Historical Society of Wis-
consin. Most of these journals relate to a
period after Mackenzie had left the North-
West.

Of modern works the most valuable are
the two volumes of L. R. Masson referred to
above (a collection of contemporary materials
with a long introduction), and G. C. David-
son’s The North West Company (Berkeley,
Cal., 1918), in which several of Mackenzie’s
papers are printed for the first time. A. G.
Morice’s History of the Northern Interior of
British Columbia (London, 1906), and Chester
Martin’s Lord Selkirk’s Work in Canada
(Oxford, 1916) should also be mentioned. A
brief biography, in the Makers of Canada
series, by G. Bryce, contains some details
derived from Mackenzie’s descendants and
not to be found elsewhere. The notices in the
Dictionary of National Biography and the
Encyclopedia Britannica are full of mistakes.

Numerous narratives of Mackenzie’s
travels have been published; the best is in
L. J. Burpee’s Search for the Western Sea
(Toronto, 1908). The Reports of the Geologi-