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Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains

In The Course of occasional visits to Canada many years since, I became intimately acquainted with some of the principal partners of the great Northwest Fur Company, who at that time lived in genial style at Montreal, and kept almost open house for the stranger. At their hospitable boards I occasionally met with partners, and clerks, and hardy fur traders from the interior posts; men who had passed years remote from civilized society, among distant and savage tribes, and who had wonders to recount of their wide and wild peregrinations, their hunting exploits, and their perilous adventures and hair-breadth escapes among the Indians. Read more...

• Authors Introduction

• Objects of American Enterprise

• Rise of the Mackinaw Company

• Fur Trade in the Pacific

• Two Expeditions Set on Foot

• Sailing of the Tonquin

• Sandwich Islanders

• Departure From the Sandwich Islands

• Mouth of the Columbia

• Founding of Astoria

• Disquieting Rumors From the Interior

• Alarm at Astoria

• Gloom at Astoria

• Expedition by Land

• French Creole Traders and Their Dependants

• Opposition of the Missouri Fur Company

• Return of Spring

• Rumors of Danger From the Sioux Tetons

• Camp Gossip

• The Great Bend of the Missouri

• Features of the Wilderness

• An Indian Horse Fair

• Wilderness of the Far West

• Summer Weather of the Prairies

• New Distribution of Horses

• Substitute for Fuel on the Prairies

• Haunts of Predatory Indians

• Rough Mountain Travelling

• Region of the Crow Indians

• Mountain Glens

• A Plentiful Hunting Camp

• A Consultation Whether to Proceed by Land or Water

• A Mendicant Snake

• Gloomy Council

• Determination of the Party to Proceed on Foot

• An Unexpected Meeting

• Mr. Hunt Overtakes the Advance Party

• Departure From Snake River

• The Village of Wish-ram

• Scanty Fare During the Winter

• Natives in the Neighborhood of Astoria

• Spring Arrangements at Astoria

• To Supply the Russian Fur Establishment

• Active Operations at Astoria

• Route of Mr. Stuart

• The Snake River Deserts

• Travellers Unhorsed

• Ben Jones and a Grizzly Bear

• Spanish River Scenery

• Wintry Storms

• Rough Wintry Travelling

• Agreement Between Mr. Astor and the Russian Fur Company

• Banks of the Wallah-Wallah

• Departure of Mr. Hunt in the Beaver

• The Partners Displeased With M'Dougal

• Anxieties of Mr. Astor

• Affairs of State at Astoria

• Voyage of the Beaver to New Archangel

• Arrangements Among the Partners

• Arrival of a Strange Sail

• Arrival of the Brig Pedler at Astoria

• Appendix

  •  Draught of a Petition to Congress, sent by Mr. Astor in 1812

  • An Act to Enable the American Fur Company

  • Letter from Mr. Gallatin to Mr. Astor

  • Notices of the Present State of the Fur Trade

  • Height of the Rocky Mountains

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Astoria; Or Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains

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