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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dale L Walker |
ISBN: | 0312869339 9780312869335 |
OCLC Number: | 43634742 |
Notes: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book." |
Description: | 478 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. Sea-Lanes. 1. The Pacific Littoral. 2. The River of the West. 3. Nootka Sound -- pt. 2. Astoria. 4. Pro Pelle Cutem. 5. The Voyage of the Tonquin. 6. The Phial of Wrath. 7. The Overlanders -- pt. 3. Wilderness Crossings. 8. To the Tetons. 9. South Pass. 10. Fort Vancouver. 11. Captain Smith. 12. Kelley's Odyssey. 13. The Iceman -- pt. 4. Out to Arcadia. 14. The Macedonian Cry. 15. Spies. 16. Champoeg. 17. Sapling Grove. 18. Jumping Off -- pt. 5. Medicine Road. 19. Toward the Elephant. 20. The Great Migration. 21. The Parallel. 22. The Bostonian. 23. Waiilatpu. 24. Last Trails. |
Responsibility: | Dale L. Walker. |
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Abstract:
"In these pages are the explorations of the Scots who scaled the mountains and mapped the rivers of the Oregon country before the time of Lewis and Clark; the imperial fiefdom created for profit and Britannia by the fur-trading ventures of the Hudson's Bay Company; John Jacob Astor's ill-fated experiment on the Columbia River; the adventures of the mountain men who risked their lives in hostile Indian country in pursuit of beaver pelts; and the arrival of missionaries and land-hungry pioneers via the Oregon Trail."--Jacket.
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