Fortune's a river : the collision of empires in northwest America / by Barry Gough.

Author
Gough, Barry M. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub., [2007], ©2007.
Description
413 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-402) and index.
Contents
  • Map of Northwest America
  • Prologue: John Ledyard: "The Very Football of Chance"
  • Chapter 1. Dreams, Schemes, Realities
  • Chapter 2. Visit of the Stranger from the West
  • Chapter 3. The Mackenzie Touch
  • Chapter 4. Soft Gold: The Russian Thrust to Alaska, Columbia River and Alta California
  • Chapter 5. Rising Tides of Empire: Flags at Nootka Sound
  • Chapter 6. The Empire of Safe Harbour Retreat
  • Chapter 7. Canadian Traders on the Missouri and the Spanish Response
  • Chapter 8. The View from Monticello: Jefferson's Wests
  • Chapter 9. Northern Shadows Across the Trail: Nor'Westers Meet Lewis and Clark
  • Chapter 10. Lewis and Clark to the Pacific and Return
  • Chapter 11. The Columbian Enterprise: David Thompson, 1800-1810
  • Chapter 12. Boston and New York on the Lower Columbia River: The Winships and Astor
  • Chapter 13. David Thompson and the Voyage of a Summer Moon, 1811
  • Chapter 14. The Fortunes of War
  • Chapter 15. The Empire of Fortune: Cultivating the Arts of Peace
  • Chapter 16. The Legacy: The North American Far West on the Eve of the Oregon Crisis
  • Appendix 1. "The Theatre of all the Geographical Fictions": The Northwest and Other Passages
  • Appendix 2. Three Flags and the Columbia River: Identification and Exploration of the River of the West.
ISBN
  • 9781550174281
  • 1550174282
LCCN
2008371018
OCLC
162506923
Other standard number
  • 40015487304
RCP
C - S
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