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100 1 $aRonda, James P.,$d1943-
245 10 $aAstoria & empire /$cby James P. Ronda.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c©1990.
300 $axiv, 400 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 375-387) and index.
505 0 $aAstoria: the origins of an imperial idea -- Planning Astoria -- The Russian connection -- To Astoria by sea -- The overland passage: Montreal to the Arikara Villages -- From the Arikara Villages to Astoria -- LIfe at Fort Astoria -- Astoria at war -- Astoria in retreat -- Astoria: the legacy.
520 $aIn late December 1788 a worried Spanish official in Mexico City set down his fears about a new and aggressive northern neighbor. Viceroy Manuel Antonio Florez offered a gloomy prediction about the future of Spanish-United States relations in the West. He already knew about the steady march of frontiersmen toward St. Louis and now came troubling word of Robert Gray's ship Columbia on the Northwest coast. All this seemed to fit a pattern, a design for Yankee expansion. "We ought not to be surprised," warned the viceroy, "that the English colonies of America, now being an independent Republic, should carry out the design of finding a safe port on the Pacific and of attempting to sustain it by crossing the immense country of the continent above our possessions of Texas, New Mexico, and California." Canadian fur merchants and Russian bureaucrats also viewed the young republic as a potential rival in the struggle for western dominion. The viceroy's vision of the future proved startlingly accurate. Within the next two decades an American president would authorize a federally funded expedition to find just the sort of transcontinental route Florez imagined. Equally important, a New York entrepreneur would propose and put into motion an ambitious plan to make the Northwest an American political and commercial empire. John Astor's Pacific Fur Company, with Astoria as its central post on the Columbia River, was Florez's nightmare come true. Astoria had long represented either a daring overland adventure or simply a failed trading venture. The Astorians surely had their share of adventure. And the Pacific Fur Company never brought its founder the profits he expected. But all those involved in the extensive enterprise knew it meant more. Thomas Jefferson once described Astoria as the "germ of a great, free and independent empire," believing that the entire American claim to the lands west of the Rockies rested on "Astor's settlement at the mouth of the Columbia." And John Quincy Adams, the expansionist-minded secretary of state, labeled then entire Northwest as "the empire of Astoria." This book seeks to explore Astoria as part of a large and complex struggle for national sovereignty in the Northwest. The Astorians and their rivals were always engaged in more than trading and trapping. They were advance agents of empire. -- from Preface.
520 1 $a"At the heart of this book, Ronda provides vivid and masterly accounts of the voyage of the Tonquin, the overland journey of Wilson Price Hunt, and a day-by-day analysis of the history of Astoria from its establishment in 1810 to the decision of the partners to sell the post to the rival North West Company in 1813 ... Ronda is as much concerned with the theme of empire as he is with the fortunes of business."--Journal of Military History.
610 20 $aPacific Fur Company.
610 27 $aPacific Fur Company.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00704462
651 0 $aAstoria (Or.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aFur traders$zNorthwest, Pacific.
651 0 $aOregon Territory$xHistory.
650 0 $aOverland journeys to the Pacific.
651 0 $aNorthwest, Pacific$xHistory.
650 0 $aFur trade$zNorthwest, Pacific$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aFur trade$zOregon$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aVoyages to the Pacific coast.
651 0 $aColumbia River Valley$xHistory.
650 7 $aFur trade.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00936407
650 7 $aFur traders.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00936416
650 7 $aOverland journeys to the Pacific.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01049347
650 7 $aVoyages to the Pacific coast.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01169329
651 7 $aUnited States$zOregon Territory$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01930994
651 7 $aOregon.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204579
651 7 $aOregon$zAstoria.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01217113
651 7 $aPacific Northwest.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01242543
651 7 $aUnited States$zColumbia River Valley.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01273964
651 7 $aAstoria, Or.$2gnd
651 4 $aOregon$xHistory$yTo 1859.
648 7 $aGeschichte Anfänge-1859.$2swd
648 7 $a1800-1899$2fast
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740 0 $aAstoria and empire.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aRonda, James P., 1943-$tAstoria & empire.$dLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1990$w(OCoLC)644148594
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0604/89038464.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0728/89038464-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0728/89038464-d.html
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