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The discovery of the Oregon trail : Robert Stuart's narratives of his overland trip eastward from Astoria in 1812-13 / edited by Philip Ashton Rollins ; introduction to the Bison book edition by Howard Lamar.
- Title
- The discovery of the Oregon trail : Robert Stuart's narratives of his overland trip eastward from Astoria in 1812-13 / edited by Philip Ashton Rollins ; introduction to the Bison book edition by Howard Lamar.
- Author
- Stuart, Robert, 1785-1848.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Rollins, Philip Ashton, 1869-1950.
- Description
- cxxxvii, 391 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Robert Stuart saw the American West a few years after Meriwehter Lewis and William Clark and, like them, kept a journal of his epic experience. A partner in John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, the Scotsman shipped for Oregon aboard the Toquin in 1810 and helped found the ill-fated settlement of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Note
- "Bison books"--P. [i].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0803292341 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^95002134^/AC
- OCLC
- 31969518
- SCSB-11982990
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library