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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.
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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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