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Author: Frederic William HOWAYPublisher:
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Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Voyages of the “Columbia” to the Northwest Coast, 1787-1790 and 1790-1793. [Journals by Robert Haswell, John B. Hoskins and John Boit.] Edited by Frederick W. Howay. [With plates.]
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Author: Frederic William HOWAYPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Voyages of the Columbia to the Northwest Coast, 1787-1790 and 1790-1793
Author: Frederic William HowayPublisher: Amsterdam : N. Israel ; New York : Da Capo Press
ISBN:
Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Voyages of the "Columbia" to the Northwest Coast, 1787-1790 and 1790-1793
Author: Frederic William HowayPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A reproduction of the original Voyages of the Columbia by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1941. Covers the trips of the Columbia to the Pacific Northwest coast.
Voyages of the "Columbia"
Author: Frederic W. HowayVoyages of the 'Columbia' to the Northwest Coast
Author: Frederick William HowayPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Northwest Coast
Author: Barry M. GoughPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 077484292X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Northwest Coast documents Britain's rise to pre-eminence in this far-flung corner of the empire. It shows how the relentless activities of its commercial interests, the adroit use of its naval power, and the steely resolve of its diplomats secured British claims to dominion and rights to trade along the Northwest Coast. Written by a leading maritime scholar and based on fresh research into known manuscripts and printed works on Pacific trade and exploration, this book incorporates new interpretations on exploration and commercial activity in this area.
The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians
Author: Carol F. JoplingPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871697912
Category : Copperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Explorers of the Maritime Pacific Northwest
Author: William L. Lang Ph.D.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610699262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Covering the adventures of coastal and ocean explorers who made key discoveries and landmark observations from northern California up the coastline to Alaska during the mid-1700s to the early 1800s, this anthology of primary source journal entries, book excerpts, maps, and drawings enables readers to "discover" the Northwest Coast for themselves. More than 200 years ago, explorers traveled from Central America, Russia, and even Europe to explore the coastline of the American Pacific Northwest, with goals of developing new trade routes, claiming territory for their home countries, expanding their fur trade, or exploring in the name of scientific discovery. This book will take readers to the decks of the great ships and along for the adventures of legendary explorers, such as James Cook, Alejandro Malaspina, and George Vancouver. This book collects primary source materials such as journal entries, book excerpts, maps, and drawings that document how explorers first experienced the unknown Pacific Northwest coast, as seen through the eyes of non-native people. Readers will learn how explorers such as Vitus Bering and Robert Gray used the full extent of their powers of observation to record the landscape, animals, and plants they witnessed as well as their interactions with indigenous peoples during their search for the mythic Northwest Passage. The book also explains how the maritime explorers of this period mapped the remote regions of the Northwest Coast, working without the benefit of modern technology and relying instead on their knowledge of a range of sciences, mathematics, and seamanship—in addition to their ability to endure harsh and dangerous conditions—to produce exceptionally detailed maps.
The Chinook Indians
Author: Robert H. RubyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806121079
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Chinook Indians, who originally lived at the mouth of the Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington, were experienced traders long before the arrival of white men to that area. When Captain Robert Gray in the ship Columbia Rediviva, for which the river was named, entered the Columbia in 1792, he found the Chinooks in an important position in the trade system between inland Indians and those of the Northwest Coast. The system was based on a small seashell, the dentalium, as the principal medium of exchange. The Chinooks traded in such items as sea otter furs, elkskin armor which could withstand arrows, seagoing canoes hollowed from the trunks of giant trees, and slaves captured from other tribes. Chinook women held equal status with the men in the trade, and in fact the women were preferred as traders by many later ships' captains, who often feared and distrusted the Indian men. The Chinooks welcomed white men not only for the new trade goods they brought, but also for the new outlets they provided Chinook goods, which reached Vancouver Island and as far north as Alaska. The trade was advantageous for the white men, too, for British and American ships that carried sea otter furs from the Northwest Coast to China often realized enormous profits. Although the first white men in the trade were seamen, land-based traders set up posts on the Columbia not long after American explorers Lewis and Clark blazed the trail from the United States to the Pacific Northwest in 1805. John Jacob Astor's men founded the first successful white trading post at Fort Astoria, the site of today's Astoria, Oregon, and the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company soon followed into the territory. As more white men moved into the area, the Chinooks began to lose their favored position as middlemen in the trade. Alcohol; new diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and venereal disease; intertribal warfare; and the growing number of white settlers soon led to the near extinction of the Chinooks. By 1&51, when the first treaty was made between them and the United States government, they were living in small, fragmented bands scattered throughout the territory. Today the Chinook Indians are working to revive their tribal traditions and history and to establish a new tribal economy within the white man's system.
Emerging from the Mist
Author: Quentin MackiePublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840471
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Our understanding of the precontact nature of the Northwest Coast has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. This book brings together the most recent research on the culture history and archaeology of a region of longstanding anthropological importance, whose complex societies represent the most prominent examples of hunters and gatherers. Combining archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography, this collection investigates several aspects of this cultural complexity, carrying on the intellectual traditions of Donald H. Mitchell and Wayne Suttles.