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.- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1868
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Image 2 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Glass. Book. 1 7^- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 3 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 4 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 5 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. ASTORIA; I WHUWi») ll ««8 ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE EOOKT MOTTNTAI-ISrS. BY WASHINGTON IRVING. AUTHOR S REVISED EDITION. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM AND SON, 661...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 6 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. WAY 2 7 1804 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by G. P. Putnam and Son, in the Clerk s Office of the District Court for the Southern...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 7 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 8 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 9 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. ASTORIA. fenicfeerbocfter SDttion»- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 10 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 11 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. INTRODUCTION. IN the course of occasional visits to Canada many years since, I became intimately ac- quainted with some of the principal part- ners of the great Northwest Fur Company, who at...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1868
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Image 12 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. VI INTRODUCTION. always been themes of cbarmed interest to me and I have felt anxious to get at the details of their ad« venturous expeditions among the savage tribes that peopled the...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 13 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. INTRODUCTION. vii rating expeditions by sea, and journeys to and fro across the Rocky Mountains by routes before untrav- elled, together with documents illustrative of savage and colonial life on the borders...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 14 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Vlll INTRODUCTION. phe so that the work, without any labored attempt at aitificial construction, actually possesses much of that unity so much sought after in works of fiction, and considered so important...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 15 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Objects of American enterprise gold hunting and fur trading their effect on colonization eariy French Canadian settlers Ottowa and Huron hunters an Indian trading camp courieurs des bois, or...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 16 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. X CONTENTS. CHAPTER III. PAGE Fur trade in the Pacific American coasting voyages Russian enterprises discovery of the Colum- bia River Carver s project to found a settlement there Mackenzie s expedition...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 17 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. CONTENTS. XI Sandwich Islands Karakakora royal monop- oly of pork description of the islanders gay- eties on shore chronicler of the island place where Captain Cook was killed John Young, a nautical...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 18 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. xii CONTENTS. CHAPTER X. PAGE Disquieting rumors from the interior reconnoitring party preparations for a trading post an un- expected arrival a spy in the camp expedition into the interior shores of...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 19 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. CONTENTS. Xiii PAGE brothers, cousins, wives, sweethearts, and pot com- panions, 141 CHAPTER XIV. St. Louis its situation motley population French Creole traders and their dependents Mis- souri Fur Company Mr. Manuel...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 20 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. xiv CONTENTS. PAGE magnificent prospect at Papillion Creek deser- tion of two hunters an irruption into the camp of Indian desperadoes village of the Omahas anecdotes of the tribe feudal wars of...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 21 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. CONTENTS. XV PAGE ■war party dangerous situation of Mr. Hunt a friendly encampment feasting and dancing approach of Manuel Lisa and bis party a grim meeting between old rivals Pierre Dorion in...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 22 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. xvi CONTENTS. PAGE lations on what may be the future population apprehended dangers a plot to desert Rose the interpreter his sinister character depart- ure from the Arickara village, 258 CHAPTER XXIII....- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 23 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. CONTENTS. xvii PAGB the bighorn or ahsahta prospect from a lofty- height plain with herds of buffalo distant peaks of the Rocky Mountains alarms in the camp tracks of grizzly bears dangerous...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 24 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. XVm CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXX. PAGE A plentiful hunting camp Shoshonie hunters Ho- back s River Mad River encampment near the Pilot Knobs a consultation preparations for a perilous voyage, 319 CHAPTER XXXI....- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 25 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. CONTENTS. XIX division of the party rugged march along the river wild and broken scenery Shoshonies alarm of a Snake encampment intercourse with the Snakes horse dealing value of a tin ket-...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 26 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. XX CONTENTS. wayworn travellers an increase of the Dorion family a camp of Shoshonies a New Year fes- tival among the Snakes a wintry march through the mountains a sunny prospect, and...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 27 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. CONTENTS. xxi dress their contempt of beards ornaments armor and weapons mode of flattening the head extent of the custom religious belief the two great spirits of the air and of the...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 28 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. xxii CONTENTS. PAGE departure of Stuart and his band for the moun- tains, 441 CHAPTER XLIV. Route of Mr. Stuart dreary wilds thirsty travel- ling a grove and streamlet the Blue Moun-...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 29 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. CONTENTS. xxiii PAGE shocking proposition of a desperate man a broken-down bull a ravenous meal Indian graves hospitable Snakes a forlorn alliance, 489 CHAPTER XLYIII. Spanish River scenery trial of Crow Indians...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 30 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. XXIV CONTENTS. CHAPTER LI. PAOE Agreement between Mr. Astor and the Russian Fur Company war between the United States and Great Britain instructions to Captain Sowle of the Beaver fitting out of...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 31 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. CONTENTS. XXV PAGE abandon Astoria sale of goods to M Tavish arrangements for the year manifesto signed by the partners departure of M Tavish for the in- terior, 560 CHAPTER LV. Anxieties...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 32 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. xxvi CONTENTS. CHAPTER LIX. PAGE Arrival of M Tavish at Astoria conduct of his fol- lowers negotiations of M Dougal and M Tavish bargain for the transfer of Astoria doubts en- tertained...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 33 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. ASTORIA. CHAPTER I. I WO leading objects of commercial gain have given birth to wide and daring enterprise in the early history of the Americas the precious metals of the South, and...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 34 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. 2 ASTORIA. ages, and beckoning after them the slow and pausing steps of agriculture and civilization. It was the fur trade, in fact, which gave early sustenance and vitality to the great...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 35 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. INDIAN FAIR. 3 tribes who hunted the countries bordering on the great lakes, would come down in a squadron of light canoes, laden with beaver skins, and other sj^oils of their year...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 36 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. 4 ASTORIA. grew out of this trade. These were called coy/r- eurs des hois, rangers of the woods originally men who had accompanied the Indians in their hunting expeditions, and made themselves...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 37 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. COUREURS DBS BO IS. 5 and when these are gone, they even sell their embroidery, their lace, and their clothes. This done, they are forced upon a new voyage for subsistence. Many...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 38 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. 6 ASTORIA. out the expeditions themselves, were permitted to sell them to the merchants these employed the coureurs des hois, or rangers of the woods, to un- dertake the long voyages on...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 39 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. LICENSED TRADERS. 7 on the simple sons of the forest, but had little power over the renegades from civilization. At length it was found necessary to establish fortified posts at the confluence...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
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Image 40 of Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. 8 ASTORIA. his expense in the intervals of their hunting ex- peditions. The Canadian traders, for a long time, had troublesome competitors in the British merchants of New York, who inveigled the...- Contributor: Irving, Washington
- Date: 1868