Author: Washington Irving Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 539
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Astoria: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains is a history book published in 1836 by Washington Irving. The book was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's 1810-1812 Astor Expedition to Oregon.
Author: Washington Irving Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 540
Book Description
Astoria: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains is a history book published in 1836 by Washington Irving. The book was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's 1810-1812 Astor Expedition to Oregon.
Author: Washington Irving Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 282
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Astoria: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains is a history book published in 1836 by Washington Irving.The book was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's 1810-1812 Astor Expedition to Oregon.Astoria by Washington Irving examines the history of the Rocky Mountain Fur trade with a look at John Jacob Astor's American Fur Trade company.
Author: Washington Irving Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 540
Book Description
Astoria: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains is a history book published in 1836 by Washington Irving. The book was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's 1810-1812 Astor Expedition to Oregon.
Author: Washington Irving Publisher: ISBN: Category : Astoria (Or.) Languages : en Pages : 296
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In 1810 John Jacob Astor sent two expeditions to the mouth of the Columbia River to establish a far flung trade empire based on furs. Three years later his plans were in ruins and his headquarters at Astoria with it's huge stock of valuable pelts were in the hands of the British and sold at a great loss to the North West Company. This daring venture was the real opening of the west. An important saga of the Western Fur Trade. John Jacob Astor, supplied Irving with many of the journals and other materials which he used in writing this history.
Author: Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving
Author: Washington Irving