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ASTORIAN ADVENTURE
by SETON ALFRED Robert F. Jones (Editor)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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An Excellent window into a pivotal time in North America and the World at large.
A journal of a young New Yorker who signed on as a clerk with John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, incorporated in 1808, at a time when the Pacific Northwest was still disputed among the United States, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia. The company was to tap the fur resources of the Northwest as well as to establish tradeAn Excellent window into a pivotal time in North America and the World at large.
A journal of a young New Yorker who signed on as a clerk with John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, incorporated in 1808, at a time when the Pacific Northwest was still disputed among the United States, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia. The company was to tap the fur resources of the Northwest as well as to establish tradeAn Excellent window into a pivotal time in North America and the World at large.
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- Bookseller
- The Professor's Bookshelf
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24
- Title
- ASTORIAN ADVENTURE
- Author
- SETON ALFRED Robert F. Jones (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Fine
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 221
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- EXPLORATION SETON ASTOR FUR TRADE
- Bookseller catalogs
- EXPLORATION;
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About The Professor's Bookshelf
Western Books, Maps, and Ephemera from the Library of the late, author and librarian Wayne Kee, who amassed in excess of 8000 books, many Rare and 1st Editions. This Researcher's Collection contains standard and bibliographical works that are relied upon as authorities in identifying and describing western print. Howes, Cowan, Adams,Wagner-Camp, Soliday, Storm, et. al.. California, Native American, Audubon, Parker, Lewis and Clark, Muir, Fremont, Hudson, Explorations and Surveys.
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