Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813

by Ross, Alexander, Alexander Ross

1904 332 pages eng

"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 an overland expedition to establish a fur-trading post on the Columbia River. A second group traveled by sea aboard the Tonquin, among them…