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Gough, Barry M.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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