Excerpt from McLoughlin and Old Oregon: A Chronicle Not Since Astor's defeat in 1812 had any American tried to trap or trade in Oregon. Unmolested for twenty years, the British fur-traders had reared their palisades and filled their forts with furs. That the young republic on the Atlantic Shore might stretch her fingers westward, that a highway might be found across the mountains - these were vague contingencies! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at . ...
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Excerpt from McLoughlin and Old Oregon: A Chronicle Not Since Astor's defeat in 1812 had any American tried to trap or trade in Oregon. Unmolested for twenty years, the British fur-traders had reared their palisades and filled their forts with furs. That the young republic on the Atlantic Shore might stretch her fingers westward, that a highway might be found across the mountains - these were vague contingencies! 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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