Astor Expedition
Mackenzie traveled west with the Pacific Fur Company's Overland Party (sometimes called the Overland Astorians or the Astor Expedition) from St. Louis, Missouri. The group experienced hard times in southern Idaho, and divided. Mackenzie’s fraction consisted of twelve total and struck north, eventually found the Salmon River and Clearwater River. They proceeded down the lower Snake River and Columbia River by canoe, and were the first of the Overland Astorians to reach Fort Astoria, on January 18, 1812.
Mackenzie spent two years exploring and trading for the Pacific Fur Company in the Willamette Valley, along the Columbia River, in eastern Washington and northern and central Idaho. When the Pacific Fur Company sold Fort Astoria and all of its property to the North West Company in 1813, Mackenzie was appointed to carry all important papers back east, which he did in 1814.
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