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Siskiyou Trail : the Hudson's Bay Company route to California
- Title
- Siskiyou Trail : the Hudson's Bay Company route to California / by Richard Dillon.
- Author
- Dillon, Richard H.
- Publication
- Sanger, California : The Write Thought, 2012.
- ©1975
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The Hudson's Bay Fur Company route to California was the fur trappers' and traders' road in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State) to San Francisco and beyond. Does "road" mean a six-lane paved freeway to you? Turn the calendar back and ponder a path that was rough, stony, precipitous, ill-marked, and full of perils at every turn: disease, famine, attacking Indians and worse. In quest chiefly of beaver and sea otters, men were lured from Quebec and Montreal, St. Louis and Lake Superior, Hudson Bay and Winnipeg, Taos and Santa Fe and Hawaii. Wherever they came from, they became the handful of wide-wandering mountain men who took part in California's first boom-the trade in furs"--Amazon.com.
- Subjects
- Note
- Subtitle on cover: The Hudson Bay Fur Company route to California.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Astorians, Nor'westers, and the honourable company -- Snake River outfit -- "Blanks and prizes" -- A sly, cunning Yankee -- Terra incognita -- Umpqua Brigade -- South of the Siskiyous -- Banks of the Sacramento -- Valley of death -- Yankee interlopers -- Cowboys from California -- Captain of the California Trail -- Exploring expedition -- Buenaventura reconnaissance.
- ISBN
- 9781618090638
- 1618090631
- LCCN
- 74023553
- OCLC
- ocn939468021
- 939468021
- SCSB-14224615
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library