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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43634742 Title: Pacific destiny : the three-century journey to the Oregon country Author: Dale L Walker Publisher: New York : Forge, 2000. ISBN/ISSN: 0312869339 9780312869335 OCLC:43634742

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Pacific destiny : the three-century journey to the Oregon country

Author:	Dale L Walker
Publisher:	New York : Forge, 2000.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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 Read more...
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Subjects	Northwest, Pacific -- Discovery and exploration. Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 18th century. Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	History
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Dale L Walker Find more information about:
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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"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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