Download or read book Astoria 1811 2011 an Adventure in History written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astorian Adventure written by Alfred Seton and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young clerk recounts life and manners in the areas where he lived and worked: the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Russian Alaska, and Spanish dominions in California and Mexico.
Download or read book Astoria written by Peter Stark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing. Six years after Lewis and Clark's began their journey to the Pacific Northwest, two of the Eastern establishment's leading figures, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson, turned their sights to founding a colony akin to Jamestown on the West Coast and transforming the nation into a Pacific trading power. Author and correspondent for Outside magazine Peter Stark recreates this pivotal moment in American history for the first time for modern readers, drawing on original source material to tell the amazing true story of the Astor Expedition. Unfolding over the course of three years, from 1810 to 1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilderness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two advance parties that reached the West Coast—one crossing the Rockies, the other rounding Cape Horn—nearly half perished by violence. Others went mad. Within one year, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River. Though the colony would be short-lived, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western coast and its founders helped blaze the Oregon Trail.
Download or read book Development of Astoria 1811 1850 written by Grace P. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astoria written by John Goodenberger and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astoria: An Adventure in History is a fourth grade level book about Astoria, Oregon and its region situated at the mouth of the Columbia River. The eight chapters span more than 200 years of history, highlighting American and European exploration, early trade with Lower Columbia Indians, the establishment of John Jacob Astor's trading post in 1811, British rule of Astoria, a boom-time of fishing and logging, a diverse flood of immigrants, destruction of Astoria's commercial district by fire, the Great Depression, WWII, and Astoria's attempt to reinvent itself from post-war to the present day.
Download or read book Astoria written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Astoria and Empire written by James P. Ronda and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late December 1788 a worried Spanish official in Mexico City set down his fears about a new and aggressive northern neighbor. Viceroy Manuel Antonio Florez offered a gloomy prediction about the future of Spanish-United States relations in the West. He already knew about the steady march of frontiersmen toward St. Louis and now came troubling word of Robert Gray's ship Columbia on the Northwest coast. All this seemed to fit a pattern, a design for Yankee expansion. "We ought not to be surprised," warned the viceroy, "that the English colonies of America, now being an independent Republic, should carry out the design of finding a safe port on the Pacific and of attempting to sustain it by crossing the immense country of the continent above our possessions of Texas, New Mexico, and California." Canadian fur merchants and Russian bureaucrats also viewed the young republic as a potential rival in the struggle for western dominion. The viceroy's vision of the future proved startlingly accurate. Within the next two decades an American president would authorize a federally funded expedition to find just the sort of transcontinental route Florez imagined. Equally important, a New York entrepreneur would propose and put into motion an ambitious plan to make the Northwest an American political and commercial empire. John Astor's Pacific Fur Company, with Astoria as its central post on the Columbia River, was Florez's nightmare come true. Astoria had long represented either a daring overland adventure or simply a failed trading venture. The Astorians surely had their share of adventure. And the Pacific Fur Company never brought its founder the profits he expected. But all those involved in the extensive enterprise knew it meant more. Thomas Jefferson once described Astoria as the "germ of a great, free and independent empire," believing that the entire American claim to the lands west of the Rockies rested on "Astor's settlement at the mouth of the Columbia." And John Quincy Adams, the expansionist-minded secretary of state, labeled then entire Northwest as "the empire of Astoria." This book seeks to explore Astoria as part of a large and complex struggle for national sovereignty in the Northwest. The Astorians and their rivals were always engaged in more than trading and trapping. They were advance agents of empire. -- from Preface
Download or read book Astoria written by Washington Irving and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Astoria" tells the story of survival and the difficulties faced by the people who undertook the tremendous Oregon Trail in 1810-1812 encountering harsh environment and hostile native Indians and still carrying on with their journeys. This is the founding story of Astoria and the people who made it possible... Excerpt: "Two leading objects of commercial gain have given birth to wide and daring enterprise in the early history of the Americas; the precious metals of the South, and the rich peltries of the North..." Washington Irving (1783–1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
Download or read book Astoria 1811 1911 written by Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astoria written by Washington Irving and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Irving's 'Astoria' chronicles the story of John Jacob Astor's ambitious attempt to establish a trading post on the Columbia River in Oregon in 1810. Irving narrates the adventurous spirit of the pioneers, their encounters with native tribes, and the legacy they left behind. It is a gripping tale of exploration and enterprise, ideal for readers of adventure and history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Astoria written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Astoria written by Washington Irving and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1811 a group of American traders built a fort at the mouth of the Columbia River, named Fort Astoria in honor of its financier, John Jacob Astor. Envisioned as the spur of a fur-trading empire, by 1813 the project was a business failure and the fort was surrendered to the British. But in its short life Astoria rendered incalculable benefits to public understanding of the Great Northwest.
Download or read book Adventure at Astoria 1810 1814 written by Gabriel Franchère and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September of 1810, Gabriel Franchere, a young man from Montreal under contract to John J. Astor's Pacific Fur Company, sailed from New York with a group of hardy adventurers to establish fur-trading posts along the Lower columbia in what today is the state of Oregon.
Download or read book Astoria Or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers the second volume of Irving's 1836 account of John Jacob Astor's fur trading colony.
Download or read book Astoria written by Washington Irving and published by Kegan Paul International. This book was released on 1987 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astoria Vol 1 written by Washington Irving and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Astoria, Vol. 1: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains In the course of occasional visits to Canada many years since, I became intimately acquainted with some of the principal partners of the great North-West Fur Company, who at that time lived in genial style at Montreal, and kept almost open house for the stranger. 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.
Download or read book Astoria Classic Reprint written by Washington Irving and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Astoria Finding that I took an interest in the subject, he expressed a regret that the true nature and extent of his enterprise and 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 remote and adventurous enterprises, and of the various people, and tribes, and castes, and characters, civilized and savage afiected by its operations. The journals, and letters also, of the adventurers by sea and land employed by Mr. Astor m his comprehensive project, might throw light upon portions of our country quite out of the track of ordinary travel, and as yet but little known. I therefore felt disposed to undertake the task, provided documents of sufficient extent and minuteness could be furnished to me. All the papers relative to the en terprise were accordingly submitted to my inspection. Among them were journals and letters narrating expeditions by sea, and journeys to and fro across the Rocky Mountains by routes before untravelled, together with documents illustrative of savage and colonial life on the borders of the Pacific. With such materials in hand, I undertook the work. The trouble of rummaging among business papers, and of collecting and col lating facts from amid tedious and commonplace details, was spared me by my nephew, Pierre M. Irving, who acted as my pioneer, and to whom I am greatly indebted for smoothing my path and lightening my labors. 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.
