Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813

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 land and build a new trading post. Their settlement, Astoria, became the first American outpost on the Pacific Slope. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.