Alexander Mackenzie was the first man to cross continental North America, a trip he accomplished by canoe ... 12 years before Lewis and Clark.

The Mackenzie clan of Scotland.

Reproduction of Mackenzie's journals of expeditions from Lake Athabasca to the Arctic Ocean and from Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean, first published in 1801. Includes account of development of fur trade by the Northwest Company.

Explorer Alexander Mackenzie details his journeys to both the Arctic and Pacific Oceans in his personal journals. In 1789 he took, what later became known, as Mackenzie River expedition to the Arctic Ocean.