Author: Mychal Ostler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467154083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A war over riches on the Columbia River. While the Civil War raged, a group of captains, merchants, bankers and gamblers in the Pacific Northwest formed the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. The first capitalistic enterprise in the new state, they aimed to develop the richest and most powerful transportation operation in the region, dominating hundreds of miles of river traffic from the Pacific Coast to Montana. Achieving such status was anything but easy. They battled competitors, lawyers, the river herself, and defectors within their management team. In the unregulated business environment of the nineteenth century, men like John Ainsworth made their own rules, often deploying frontier justice against their enemies. Join author Mychal Ostler as he recounts the battle for power that shaped an industry.
Battle for the Columbia River: The Rise of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company
Author: Mychal Ostler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467154083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A war over riches on the Columbia River. While the Civil War raged, a group of captains, merchants, bankers and gamblers in the Pacific Northwest formed the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. The first capitalistic enterprise in the new state, they aimed to develop the richest and most powerful transportation operation in the region, dominating hundreds of miles of river traffic from the Pacific Coast to Montana. Achieving such status was anything but easy. They battled competitors, lawyers, the river herself, and defectors within their management team. In the unregulated business environment of the nineteenth century, men like John Ainsworth made their own rules, often deploying frontier justice against their enemies. Join author Mychal Ostler as he recounts the battle for power that shaped an industry.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467154083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A war over riches on the Columbia River. While the Civil War raged, a group of captains, merchants, bankers and gamblers in the Pacific Northwest formed the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. The first capitalistic enterprise in the new state, they aimed to develop the richest and most powerful transportation operation in the region, dominating hundreds of miles of river traffic from the Pacific Coast to Montana. Achieving such status was anything but easy. They battled competitors, lawyers, the river herself, and defectors within their management team. In the unregulated business environment of the nineteenth century, men like John Ainsworth made their own rules, often deploying frontier justice against their enemies. Join author Mychal Ostler as he recounts the battle for power that shaped an industry.
Columbia River
Author: John Hipple Mitchell
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Category : Celilo Falls (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Celilo Falls (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Steamboating on the Columbia River
Author: John Commigers Ainsworth
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Category : Steamboat lines
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Steamboat lines
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A Brief History of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company
Stern-wheelers Up Columbia
Author: Randall Vause Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780803258747
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780803258747
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Oregon Steam Navigation Company Records
Author: Oregon Steam Navigation Company
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Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Collection includes miscellaneous records of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, including schedules, receipts, tickets, correspondence, and a copy of the Articles of Incorporation, Oct. 18, 1862 with amendatory and supplementary articles, Nov. 7, 1868. Oversize folder contains what appears to be a supplies list for Apr. - July 1882.
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Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Collection includes miscellaneous records of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, including schedules, receipts, tickets, correspondence, and a copy of the Articles of Incorporation, Oct. 18, 1862 with amendatory and supplementary articles, Nov. 7, 1868. Oversize folder contains what appears to be a supplies list for Apr. - July 1882.
The Columbia River Empire
Author: Patrick Donan
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Category : Columbia River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Columbia River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Oregon Steam Navigation Company
Author: Dorothy O. Johansen
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Category : Inland water transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Category : Inland water transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Annual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War Department
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of War
Author: United States. War Department
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description