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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Gough, Barry M.     Subjects     Northwest, Pacific -- History.     Northwest, Pacific -- Discovery and exploration.     Northwest, Canadian -- History -- To 1870.     Canada -- History.     Northwest boundary of the United States.     Columbia River Valley -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gough, Barry M.       by title:      Fortune's a river : ...       by call number:      971.101 G692f     Search the Web     Gough, Barry M.     Northwest, Pacific -- History.     Northwest, Pacific -- Discovery and exploration.     Northwest, Canadian -- History -- To 1870.     Canada -- History.     Northwest boundary of the United States.     Columbia River Valley -- History.       MARC Display

Fortune's a river : the collision of empires in northwest America / by Barry Gough. by Gough, Barry M. Harbour Pub., c2007. Call #: 971.101 G692f Subjects Northwest, Pacific -- History.   Northwest, Pacific -- Discovery and exploration.   Northwest, Canadian -- History -- To 1870.   Canada -- History.   Northwest boundary of the United States.   Columbia River Valley -- History. ISBN:  9781550174595 (pbk.) 1550174592 (pbk.) 9781550174281 1550174282 Description:  413 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-402) and index. Contents:  John Ledyard: "the very football of chance" -- Dreams, schemes, realities -- Visit of the stranger from the west -- The Mackenzie touch -- Soft gold: the Russian thrust to Alaska, Columbia River and Alta California -- Rising Tides of empire: flags at Nootka Sound -- The empire of safe harbour retreat -- Canadian traders on the Missouri and the Spanish response -- The view from Monticello: Jefferson's Wests -- Northern shadows across the trail: Nor'Westers meet Lewis and Clark -- Lewis and Clark to the Pacific and return -- The Columbian enterprise: David Thompson, 1800-1810 -- Boston and New York on the Lower Columbia River: the Winships and Astor -- David Thompson and the voyage of a summer moon, 1811 -- The fortunes of war -- The empire of fortune: cultivating the arts of peace -- The legacy: the North American far west on the eve of the Oregon crisis. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 971.101 G692f Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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