Pacific Destiny
The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country
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Word Count
120,000 words, Guess
Page Count
480 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8053322M
- Internet Archivepacificdestinyth0000walk_o8a8
- ISBN-100765303108
- ISBN-139780765303103
- Library of Congress Control Number00027676
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number50304899
- Better World Books122-ABA-543
- Better World BooksW7-BTP-742
- Better World Books9780765303103
Classifications
- LCCF880 .W23 2002
- DDC979.5
- LCCF880 .W23 2000
Description
"In these pages are the explorations of the Scots who scaled the mountains and mapped the rivers of the Oregon country before the time of Lewis and Clark; the imperial fiefdom created for profit and Britannia by the fur-trading ventures of the Hudson's Bay Company; John Jacob Astor's ill-fated experiment on the Columbia River; the adventures of the mountain men who risked their lives in hostile Indian country in pursuit of beaver pelts; and the arrival of missionaries and land-hungry pioneers via the Oregon Trail."--Jacket.
First Sentence
The first trails to Oregon were sea-lanes, the wakes left by Spanish caravels and fragatos with lateen sails bulging in ferocious winds and masts bent perilously as they blundered along the Pacific coast of North America in pursuit of obscure missions approved by the viceroy of Mexico.
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