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Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon Or Columbia River [microform]
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Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon Or Columbia River, 1810-1813
A vivid historical account of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and the battle for furs and empire waged in the Oregon Country.
Forging a Fur Empire
Alexander Ross, the pioneer recorder of the early fur trade in the far northern West, led a beaver trapping expedition in 1824 into the vast, unfamiliar territory east of trading posts in the Pacific Northwest. He and his men ventured deep into Snake River country in present-day Idaho and Montana. In this narrative, based on the accounts left by Ross and others, historian and legal scholar John Phillip Reid describes the experiences of the earliest Hudson's Bay Company fur-trapping expeditions--ventures usually overlooked by historians--and explores the interaction between the diverse cultures of the Pacific Northwest. Ross recorded in exquisite detail the endless vexations of managing a bri...
The Fur Hunters of the Far West
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The Pacific Fur Company
*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the company *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading From the early 19th century, the image of an American empire extending to both coasts became a rallying cry. The Pacific Ocean represented, in Jefferson's mind, the most effective western border. His view was in part inaccurate, as he expected the Rocky Mountains to resemble the gentler Appalachians, not a range of American Alps. Governing from the eastern seaboard, the two most effective methods of procuring wilderness lands in the west necessitated a campaign of exploration and the establishment of permanent trade entities located in strategic locations to dis...
