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Astoria And Empire
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Author : James P. Ronda
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1993-02-01
Astoria And Empire written by James P. Ronda and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-01 with History categories.
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
Astoria And Empire
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Author : James P. Ronda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
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Astoria
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Author : Peter Stark
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-03-04
Astoria written by Peter Stark and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with History categories.
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.
Astoria
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Author : Washington Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Astoria written by Washington Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Astoria (Or.) categories.
Astoria
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Author : Peter Stark
language : en
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date : 2015
Astoria written by Peter Stark and has been published by Ecco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Astoria (Or.) categories.
Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
Astoria
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Author : Robert Viscusi
language : en
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Release Date : 1995
Astoria written by Robert Viscusi and has been published by Guernica Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
"Astoria is an original and powerful vision of the Great Migration, full of startling angels and unexpected daggers of truth. The narrator is a man deranged by history and grief. For him, the real capital of the world is a place called Astoria, the Italian neighborhood in Queens where his mother was a child in the 1920s. Now it is 1986, two years after her death. He has gone to teach literature at the University of Paris. At the tomb of Napoleon, he discovers she has not left him. For the narrator, she is Napoleon. No matter where he goes, he finds himself still in Astoria, her revolutionary empire. From Paris to New York to Rome, he meets her monuments at every turn. To break her hold on him, he weaves theory after theory, writes one history after another. His struggle reveals her as the will, the incest, and the magic of the Great Migration, its fury, its rage, its unappeasable desire. Astoria is an experiment in what Robert Viscusi calls speculative history. In his first book, Max Beerbohm or The Dandy Dante (1986), Viscusi developed the theory of a history of what might be, rather than what has actually been."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
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Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1921
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1921 with Interstate commerce categories.
Empires Nations And Families
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Author : Anne F. Hyde
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Empires Nations And Families written by Anne F. Hyde and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with History categories.
Before And After The State
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Author : Allan K. McDougall
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Before And After The State written by Allan K. McDougall and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with History categories.
The creation of the Canada–US border in the Pacific Northwest is often presented as a tale of two nations, but beyond the macro-political dynamics is the experience of individuals. Before and After the State examines the imposition of a border across a region that already held a vibrant, highly complex society and dynamic trading networks. Allan McDougall, Lisa Philips, and Daniel Boxberger explore fundamental questions of state formation, social transformation, and the (re)construction of identity to expose how the devices and myths of nation building affect people’s lives.
Glencoe And The Indians
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Author : James Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-17
Glencoe And The Indians written by James Hunter and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-17 with History categories.
In 1876, they wipe out General George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Chief Sitting Bull and his Sioux people then flee from the United States to Canada. There, in the autumn of 1877, the Sioux are joined by the remnants of the latest Indian nation to make a stand against the US Army, the Nez Perce. Their survivors are led by Chief White Bird. A young man follows White Bird to Sitting Bull's camp. He is White Bird's close relative and aims to tell the story of the Nez Perce War from the Nez Perce point of view. This young man's name is Duncan McDonald. Descended from chiefs of the Nez Perce and from chiefs of Scotland's most formidable clan, Duncan's family - first as Highlanders, then as Native Americans - have twice been victims of massacre and dispossession. Written with the help of Duncan McDonald's present-day kinsfolk on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Western Montana, this real-life family saga spans two continents and more than thirty generations to link Scotland's clans with the native peoples of the American West.