Excerpt from Sunset, Vol. 27: The Magazine of the Pacific and of All the Far West; August 1911 In 1807 this man, possessed by the greatness of a region he had seen only through other men's eyes, urged the government to build and garrison a line of posts along the Missouri and the Columbia to the sea-otter coast, that American trade and American blood might follow this line of strongholds and spread up and down the western shore as it had done upon the Atlantic. Official Washington read the communication, acknowledged its ...
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Excerpt from Sunset, Vol. 27: The Magazine of the Pacific and of All the Far West; August 1911 In 1807 this man, possessed by the greatness of a region he had seen only through other men's eyes, urged the government to build and garrison a line of posts along the Missouri and the Columbia to the sea-otter coast, that American trade and American blood might follow this line of strongholds and spread up and down the western shore as it had done upon the Atlantic. Official Washington read the communication, acknowledged its receipt and added it to the long row of musty files. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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