370 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2015 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Astoria
Astor and Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a tale of ambition and survival on the early American frontier
by Stark, Peter
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Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
Subjects
- Discovery and exploration
- History
Places
- Astoria (Or.)
- Pacific Northwest
- West (U.S.)