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Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
McDonald & Woodward Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book is a history of the early federal surveyors of the Pacific Northwest, the work they performed for the US General Land Office between 1851 and 1855, the contribution their efforts made to the westerly movement of American settlement, and the order they imposed on the land of the western valleys and adjacent mountains in what are now the states of Oregon and Washington. When Oregon Territory's Surveyor General John B. Preston and his cadre...
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