Book/Printed Material Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains.
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Image 1 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. «t m.m cjjiuw fiilMre^- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 2 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. If ;^^^Mr^- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 3 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. It INTRODUCTION. In the course of occasional visits to Canada many years since, I became intimately acquainted with some of the prin- cipal partners of the great Northwest Fur Company, who at...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 4 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 4 INTRODUCTION. since, having for its object to carry the fir trade across the Eocky Mountains, and to sweep the shores of the Pacific. Finding that I took an interest in the...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 5 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. INTRODUCTION-. 5 The work I here present to the public is necessarily of a rambling and somewhat disjointed nature, comprising various expeditions and adventures by land and sea. The facts, how- ■ever,...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 6 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains.- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 7 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. CONTENTS. AGK Introduction 3 CHAPTER I. Objects of American enterprise gold hunting and fur trading their effect on colonization early French Canadian settlers— Ottowa and Huron hunters— an Indian trading camp— couriers...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 8 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 8 CONTENTS. CHAPTER V. PAGE Sailing of the Tonquin— a rigid commander and a reckless crew— landsmen on shipboard— fresh-water sailors at sea— lubber nests— ship fare— a Labrador veteran literary clerks...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 9 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. CONTENTS. 9 CHAPTER XH. PAGE Gloom at Astoria— an ingenious stratagem— the small-pox chief— launching of the Dolly an arrival a Canadian trapper a freeman of the forest an Iro- quois hunter—...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 10 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 10 CONTENTS. PAGE Carson, two adventurous trappers— scientific pursuits of Messrs. Bradbury and Nuttall— zeal of a botanist^adventure of Mr. Bradbury with a Ponca In- dian—expedient of the pocket compass and microscope—...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 11 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. CONTENTS. 11 PAGE about the original Indian names— camp of Cheyennes— trade for horses- character of the Cheyennes— their horsemanship— historical anecdotes of the tribe 171 CHAPTER XXIV. New distribution of horses—...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 12 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 12 CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXX. A plentiful hunting camp— Shoshonie hunters— Hoback s River— Mad Rivera- encampment near the Pilot Knobs— a consultation— preparations for a peril- ous voyage 202 CHAPTER XXXI. A...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 13 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. CONTENTS. 13 PAGE Mr. Crooks again left behind— the party emerge from among the mountains- interview with Shoshonies a guide procured to conduct the party across a mountain— ferriage across Snake River...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 14 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 14 CONTENTS. PASS and crew— instructions to the captain— the Sandwich Islands— rumors of the fate of the Tonquin— precautions on reaching the mouth of the Columbia 269 CHAPTER XLIII. Active operations...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 15 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. COIfTANtS. 15 PAGE and a grizzly bear the wigwam bighorn and blacktails— beef and venison good quarters and good cheer— an alarm an intrusion unwelcome guests- desolation of the larder gormandizing exploits...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 16 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 16 CONTENTS. CHAPTER LVI. PAGE Affairs of state at Astoria— M Dougal proposes for the hand of an Indian Prin- cess—matrimonial embassy to Comcomly— matrimonial notions among the Chin ooks— settlements and...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 17 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA. CHAPTER I. Two leading objects of commercial gain have given birth to wide and daring enterprise in the early history of the Ameri- cas the precious metals of the south, and...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 18 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 18 ASTORIA. cheap commodities. Immense profits were thus made by the early traders, and the traffic was pursued with avidity. As the valuable furs soon became scarce in the neighborhood of the...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 19 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA. 19 with remote tracks and tribes; and who now became, as it were, pedlers of the wilderness. These men wonld set out from Montreal with canoes w ell stocked with goods,...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 20 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 20 ASTORIA. general, and at first were given only to persons of respecta- bility to gentlemen of broken fortunes to old officers of the army who had families to provide for; or...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 21 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA. 21 of the woods, as well those who came up with goods from Montreal as those who returned with peltries from the interior. Here new expeditions were fitted out, and took...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 22 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 22 ASTOBIA. It was not until the year 1766 that the trade regained its old channels; but it was then pursued with much avidity and emulation by individual merchants, and soon transcended...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 23 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA. 23 Great Slave Lake. This singular and beautiful system of internal seas, which renders an immense region of wilderness so accessible to the frail bark of the Indian or the trader,...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 24 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 24 ASTOMA. shared together in their wild wood life, had linked them heartily to each other, so that they formed a convivial fra- ternity. Few travellers that have visited Canada some thirty...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 25 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA. 25 merits were all the worse for wear. Indeed, the partners from below considered the whole dignity of the company as repre- sented in their persons, and conducted themselves in suitable...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 26 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 26 ASTORIA. and vagabond hangers-on, who feasted sumptuously without on the crumbs that fell from their table, and made the welkin ring with old French ditties, mingled with Indian yelps and yellings....- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 27 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA. 27 the Wisconsin, to that great artery of the west, the Mississippi and down that stream to all its tributary rivers. In this way they hoped soon to monopolize the trade...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 28 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 28 ASTORIA. Hampton Roads in the month of January. The winter was extremely severe, and the ship, with many others, was de- tained by the ice in and about Chesapeake Bay for...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 29 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTOBIA. 29 These he shipped from Canada to London, no direct trade be- ing allowed from that colony to any but the mother country. In 1794 or 95, a treaty with Great...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 30 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 30 ASTORIA. creasing it to two millions. The capital was furnished by him* elf he, in fact, constituted the company; for, though he had a board of directors, they were merely nominal;...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 31 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA. 31 a new gold coast had been discovered. Individuals from various countries dashed into this lucrative traffic, so that in the year 1792 there were twenty-one vessels under different flags, plying...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 32 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 32 ASTORIA. their furs, by a shorter voyage, directly to the northern parts of the Chinese empire thus being able to afford them in the market without the additional cost of internal...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 33 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA, 33 continent between the forty-third and forty-sixth degrees of northern latitude, to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. His ob- jects were to ascertain the breadth of the continent at its...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 34 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 34 ASTORIA. count of his expeditions, he suggested the policy of opening an intercourse between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and forming regular establishments through the interior and at both extremes, as...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 35 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA. 35 the mouth of the latter, where was to be founded the chief trading house or mart. Inferior posts would be established in the interior, and on all the tributary streams...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 36 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 36 ASTORIA. idea of supplying the Kussian establishment regularly by means of the annual ship that should visit the settlement at the mouth of the Columbia (or Oregon) by this means the...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 37 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA. 37 of blood and interest, and enjoying like us the rights of self- government. The cabinet joined with Jefferson in warm approbation of the plan, and held out assurance of every...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 38 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 38 ASTORIA. his plan to the agents of the Northwest Company, and pra posed to interest them, to the extent of one third, in the trade thus to be opened. Some correspondence...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 39 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. ASTORIA, 39 Alexander M Kay, had accompanied Sir Alexander Mackenzie in both of his expeditions to the northwest coast of America in 1789 and 1793. The other two w^ere Duncan M Dougal...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880
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Image 40 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky mountains. 40 ASTORIA. Wilson Price Hunt was the one chosen for the first term. Should the interests of the concern at any time require his ab- sence, a person was to be appointed,...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1880