Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Astoria : John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a story of wealth, ambition, and survival / Peter Stark

By:

Stark, Peter, , 1954 -

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2014Description: 366 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780062218292

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

978.02 STA

Contents:

Summary: Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	978.02 STA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		037237

Browsing Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. shelves, Shelving location: Sala Ingles Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	978 BUC The Oregon Trail : a new American journey	978 GWY Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history	978 STE Marking the sparrow's fall : the making of the american west	978.02 STA Astoria : John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a story of wealth, ambition, and survival	978.1033 SMA Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth	979.4 EAR Refinery town : big oil, big money, and the remaking of an American city	979.4 HUT Frontier settlement in Mexican California; the Híjar-Padrés colony and its origins, 1769-1835	Next

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-351) and index

The launch -- The journey -- Pacific Empire and war -- Fate of the Astorians.

Documents the 1810 to 1813 expedition, financed by millionaire John Jacob Astor and encouraged by Thomas Jefferson, to establish Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.