Astoria
Astoria

Author: Washington Irving

Publisher:

Published: 1836

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13:

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The first English edition was issued simultaneously with the American. John Jacob Astor persuaded Irving to undertake this story of his ill-fated enterprise at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1834. Irving had the use of all of Astor's notes and manuscripts, as well as the original journals of such key participants as Robert Stuart, Wilson Price Hunt, and Ramsey Crooks. The resulting work is a classic - an indispensable resource for students of the American West. It is considered to be the "classic account of the first American attempt at settlement on the Pacific coast,1811--initial action towards substantiating our claim to Oregon--including the earliest extended relation of Wilson P. Hunt's overland expedition from St. Louis to that settlement." Howes.

Astoria
Astoria

Author: Washington Irving

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1776675630

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In the early 1800s, John Astor made the fateful decision to make good on his long-held dream of establishing a fur-trading company in the Northwest United States. Astor later convinced Washington Irving, one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American literature, to create a non-fiction account of the operation's origins. The result, Astoria, is a fascinating work of history.

Astoria
Astoria

Author: Washington Irving

Publisher:

Published: 1836

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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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.

Astoria, Or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Classic Reprint)
Astoria, Or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Classic Reprint)

Author: Washington Irving

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-19

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780365005506

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Excerpt from Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains Its national character and importance had never been under stood, and a wish that I would undertake to give an account of. It. The suggestion struck upon the chord of early associa tions, already vibrating in my mind. It occurred to me that a work of this kind might comprise a variety of those curious details, so interesting to me, illustrative of the fur trade, of its. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Astoria
Astoria

Author: Irving Washington

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9781355503538

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Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains

Author: Washington Irving

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781670068156

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Astoria is a novel published in 1836 by Washington Irving, at the behest of John Jacob Astor, about the American West. William R Lighton an editor of Lewis and Clark's journals refers to Pierre Dorion son of the celebrated "Old Dorion" who appears in Irving's book, Pierre having contributed to Lewis and Clark's expedition.