About this title: Four years after Lewis and Clark stimulated American interest in the far western reaches of the continent, John Jacob Astor, a New York businessman, dispatched on overland expedition to establish a fur trading post on the Columbia River. A second group traveled by sea aboard the TONQUIN, among them Alexander Ross, a clerk in Astor's Pacific Fur Company. ADVENTURES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS is a vivid account of the expedition and its struggles to establish a successful trading venture. Ross details the TONQUIN'S dangerous voyage and documents the Astorians' painstaking struggles to clear the ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OREGON ST UNIV PR
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780870715280ISBN:0870715283
Description: New. A vivid historical account of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and the battle for furs and empire waged in the Oregon Country. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: hb
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Co, Cleveland OH
Date Published: 1904
Description: Royal 8vo, pp. 332. Early Western Travels 1748-1846; Volume VII. With a folding map and a facsimile of the original title page. Bound in brick-red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Ex-Hudson's Bay Co. Library: with spine sticker, bookplate to front pastedown and rubber stamps and call no. to ffep; spine slightly sunned, minor scuffing to edges, else very good. Reprinted from the original London edition of 1849. Alexander Ross (1783-1856) was a fur trader, historian, and early ... read more
Edition: First of this edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland
Date Published: 1904
Description: Octavo. 333pp. folding map; original title-page in facsimile. Maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Bookplate, else Near Fine. Volume VII of the publisher's "Early Western Travel Series", reprinting the 1849 original edition. CLARK & BRUNET (2002) 282-vii. See HOWES R-448, WASHINGTON 89: 67. Image or additional images available upon request. read more
Edition: First of this edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, Ohio
Date Published: 1904
Description: Small quarto. 333pp. Folding map; original title-page in facsimile. Maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. A Near Fine copy of this scholarly reprint, published as volume VII of the publisher's "Early Western Travel Series". This is one of 392 'separates' as note don the title-page, from a total printing of 1102. CLARK & BRUNET (2002) 282-vii. See HOWES R-448, WASHINGTON 89: 67. // Reprints the rare 1849 original edition. "Ross came to Astoria at its beginning and wrote of his own ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, OH
Date Published: 1904
Description: VG+/NONE; Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 332 pages; Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, et. C, by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Volume VII of the Early Western Travels 1748-1846. read more
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