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Book Americana Illustrated

Download or read book Americana Illustrated written by National Americana Society and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chinook Indians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert H. Ruby
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780806121079
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Chinook Indians written by Robert H. Ruby and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Americana  American Historical Magazine

Download or read book Americana American Historical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Washington Historical Quarterly

Download or read book The Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Log of the Columbia

Download or read book A New Log of the Columbia written by John Boit and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Washington Historical Quarterly

Download or read book Washington Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Log of the Union

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Boit
  • Publisher : [Portland] : OHS [Oregon Historical Society]
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Log of the Union written by John Boit and published by [Portland] : OHS [Oregon Historical Society]. This book was released on 1981 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The texts of the Log and the Remarks are abridgements of the original documents as bequeathed to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1919 by Boit's grandson.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by Francess G. Halpenny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1966 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is the definitive biographical reference work in Canadian history. "No serious student of Canada's past can function without access to this thorough, balanced and reliable source." R. Hall, Globe and Mail.

Book Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society

Download or read book Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society written by Hawaiian Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the reports include papers.

Book The Pacific Basin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herman Ralph Friis
  • Publisher : New York : American Geographical Society
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book The Pacific Basin written by Herman Ralph Friis and published by New York : American Geographical Society. This book was released on 1967 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Diaries  Diaries written from 1492 to 1844

Download or read book American Diaries Diaries written from 1492 to 1844 written by Laura Arksey and published by Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research. This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog

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  • Author : Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of Western Americana
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book Catalog written by Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of Western Americana and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Outline of the History of the Pacific Northwest  with Special Reference to Washington

Download or read book An Outline of the History of the Pacific Northwest with Special Reference to Washington written by Ceylon Samuel Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript "An Outline of the Pacific Northwest" by Ceylon Kingston, 90 pp, circa 1920-1926. Author's working copy.

Book Explorers of the Maritime Pacific Northwest

Download or read book Explorers of the Maritime Pacific Northwest written by William L. Lang Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The River Pioneers

Download or read book The River Pioneers written by Edwin Van Syckle and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Grays Harbor, its coastal towns and river valleys in Grays Harbor County, Washington from 1775-1948. Narrative insights into the lives of the native Indians, early explorers and the pioneers who settled the valleys and established towns such as Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Cosmopolis and Grays Harbor City.