Author: JUDSON, Katharine B.
Title: The British Side of the Restoration of Fort Astoria
Description: Portland, OR, The Ivy Press, 1920. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff brown wrappers. 44pp. Near fine. Memorable chronicle of early British involvement in Oregon. A tight and lovely first separate edition of this slim study, which first appeared in the "Oregon Historical Quarterly" (Vol. XX, Nos. 3 and 4, 1919). Top of front wrapper bears neatly penned "To Professor Benton," likely in the author's hand. Uncommon. Fort Astoria was John Jacob Astor's main Pacific Fur Company trading post, built 1811 -- the first American-owned settlement on the Pacific coast. .

Keywords: WESTERN AMERICANA Western Americana


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