IRVING, WASHINGTON.

Astoria.

Or anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Tacoma edition. 2 Vols. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. 8vo.Orig.gilt decorated cloth binding. T.e.g. and other edges untrimmed. With 2 frontisps., illust. title-pages, and numerous full-page plates with the orig. captioned tissue-gaurds.Note: Arguably Irving's most important historical work, and certainly a key title in western history, as Irving was hired to document John Jacob Astor's critical role in the fur trade of the Northwest and his establishment of Astoria, a trading post near the mouth of Oregon's Columbia River in 1811. Astor's action was the first attempt to sustain the American claim to the Oregon Territory.

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