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"It is difficult to do justice to the courage and perseverance of the pioneers of the fur trade, who first broke their way through a wilderness where everything was calculated to deter and dismay them." -Washington IrvingWashington Irving ( 1783 – 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. In 1832 , he accompanied the U.S. Commissioner on Indian Affairs, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, along with companions Charles La Trobe and Count Albert-Alexandre de Pourtales, on a surveying mission deep in Indian Territory. In 1834, he was approached by fur magnate John Jacob Astor, who convinced Irving to write a history of his fur trading colony in the American Northwest, now known as Astoria, Oregon. During an extended stay at Astor's, Irving met the explorer Benjamin Bonneville, who intrigued Irving with his maps and stories of the territories beyond the Rocky Mountains. When the two met in Washington, D.C. several months later, Bonneville opted to sell his maps and rough notes to Irving for $1,000. Irving used these materials as the basis for his 1837 book The Adventures of Captain Bonneville.
The present book, "The Fur Traders of the Columbia River and the Rocky Mountains", combines Irving's Astoria and The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, and from them has constructed a narrative of great interest and considerable value both to history and literature classes. The two stories are interwoven so as to give a continuous account of the way in which the Northwest was opened up by the fearless adventurers who were attracted to that vast unexplored territory by the fur trade.
CONTENTS
I. THE NORTHWEST COMPANY
II. THE AMERICAN FUR COMPANY
III. OUTWARD BOUND
IV. ASTORIA
V. THE Loss OF THE "TONQUIN"
VI. UP THE MISSOURI
VII. THE TETONS
VIII. CALDRON LINN
IX. THE INDIANS OF WISH-RAM
X. LOVE AND WAR
XI TREACHERY OR VALOUR?
XII READJUSTMENT AND GROWTH
XIII. PIERRE'S HOLE
XIV. THE NEZ PERCES
XV. THE RENDEZVOUS 1833
XVI. THE CROW COUNTRY
XVII. THE WIND RIVER MOUNTAINS
XVIII. DOWN THE COLUMBIA
XIX. SHE- WEE-SHE
XX. A VOYAGE IN A BULL BOAT
XXI. FAREWELL, TO THE MOUNTAINS
XXII. THE LAST OF THE COMPANIES
This book originally published in 1903 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
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