Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River: Being a Narrative of the Expedition Fitted out by J. J. Astor to Establish the

Publisher Marketing: Title: Adventures of the first Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River: being a narrative of the expedition fitted out by J. J. Astor to establish the "Pacific Fur Company"; with an account of some Indian Tribes on the coast of the Pacific. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers to the European settlements in North America through independence, with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain. Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual framework of this collection highlights 16th century English, Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Ross, Alexander; 1849. 8 . 10410.c.28. Contributor Bio:  Ross, Alexander Terry Crowley is professor of history at the University of Guelph, and is editor of the journal Ontario History. Among his books are "Clio's Craft: A Primer of Historical Methods; One Voice: A History of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association" (with C. A. V. Baker); "Agnes MacPhail and the Politics of Equality", which won the W. C. Good Writing Award of the Rural Learning Association; and "Canadian History to 1867: The Birth of a Nation". Dr. Crowley has contributed sections on the French regime to "The Concise History of Christianity in Canada" and rural labour in "Labouring Lives: Work and Workers in Nineteenth-Century Ontario", which won the Ontario Historical Society's J. J. Thalman Award.