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 | | Astor had been advised that a British vessel of war was cruising off the Atlantic coast to intercept the Tonquin and impress the Canadians as British subjects. | | | His late copartner MacDougal, whom he had left in charge to represent Mr. | | | As a merchant devoid of such national prejudice because of his different nationality, he could not, did not, realize that a purely mercantile arrangement might not |
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| | Oregon Trail Maps South Pass Robert Stuart Astorian Pictures |
| | Jefferson pledged his wholehearted support to the establishment of claims to the Oregon Country. | | | Hunt would lead the westbound overland party, and Duncan McDougall, who would go on the | | | Donald Mackenzie with John Reed went south into Idaho. |
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| | The American Fur Trade |
| | While there may have been some métis employed at the fort, it is more probable that the skilled workmen (carpenters, masons) came from St. Louis and that the large majority of the laborers were French Canadian engagés, out from Quebec. | | | Then, in April 1834, just when McKenzie was sure of driving out Sublette and Campbell, Chouteau wrote him that he had bought out the opposition. | | | When McKenzie finally did learn that the secret was out, he blamed Nathaniel Wyeth. |
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http://www.electricscotland.com/history/articles/american_fur.htm
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| | These concerns of Simpson became apparent in 1829 when he interviewed an American fur trapper, Jedediah Smith, whose party had come to the Oregon Country. | | | Although he did not say so to Simpson, Smith envisioned American settlers arriving and claiming the Oregon Country—or at least parts of it—for the United States. | | | Fur traders were not the same as settlers in that they did not come to establish permanent towns and farms or to dispossess Indians from their lands. |
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| | They protested to the government against the validity of the grant to Selkirk, alleging that it had been corruptly secured, and that he received it as a free grant. | | | In 1806, Simon Fraser, another partner, successfully led a party across the Rocky Mountains, and established a post on Fraser's Lake, fifty-four degrees north. | | | The policy and organization of those two model trading companies were radically dissimilar. |
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http://usgennet.org/usa/or/county/union1/1889vol1/1889volumeIpage89-94.htm
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| | Oregon Blue Book History/Land-based Fur Trade and Exploration |
| | An emigrant from Germany who prospered as a middleman in the fur trade and investor in New York real estate, Astor had listened keenly to reports of the Lewis and Clark expedition. | | | Their children had connections with both local and foreign worlds and often grew up bilingual. | | | These specimens added to scientific understanding and were rendered into lifelike images by the famed painter in his books on North American birds and the quadrupeds. |
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http://www.sos.state.or.us/bbook/cultural/history/history06.htm
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| | Oregon History ProjectOHP Oregon Biographies John Jacob Astor |
| | Astor was one of the wealthiest men the country had ever seen and his meager public bequest caused many to remember him as a miser who attempted to found an American dynasty by keeping the money in his family. | | | In 1822 Astor again lobbied Congress, this time to close government operated trading posts. | | | Soon after the 1794 Jay Treaty allowed Americans to trade in Canada (and Canadians to trade in the United States), Astor became America’s leading fur trader. |
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http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-John-Astor.cfm
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| | Mountain Men and the Fur Trade |
| | The American fur trade was dormant from 1814 to 1819 due to the economic and political turmoil caused by the War of 1812. | | | After the United States won the war, the post was returned to America, but not to Astor. | | | The amount of control a company had over a trapper depended on what contract for his services he was under. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Mtmen/furtrade.html
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| | American Fur Company -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The French fur trade of Montreal had been taken over by British American traders who conducted the trade with the aid of French experience and skill. | | | The redivision of the continent begun by the American Revolution had been intensified by rivalry in the fur trade. | | | By 1834, when Astor sold his interest, the American Fur Company with its subsidiaries had become the largest commercial organization in the United States. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9006114?tocId=9006114
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| | The country had become part of the United States in 1846 and part of Idaho in 1863 when Idaho was made a territory. | | | This did not make the Blackfeet any more friendly. | | | Entirely independent of their battles with MacDonald, they destroyed, on May 21, 1823, a party of Missouri Fur Company trappers who had been operating on the upper Missouri. |
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http://www.3rd1000.com/history3/events/henrys.htm
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| | With such vigor and in such large numbers did the British and Americans enter the Northwest fur trade that by the second decadeof the nineteenth century the sea otter was almost driven to extinction. | | | This in turn was the beginning of the endof Russian influence in the region. | | | Innis, Harold A., The fur trade in Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1956. |
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| | Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth Century Basra. | | | Astor's profits from his American Fur Company, the War of 1812, and large investments in real estate, made him the wealthiest American of his day. | | | Merchants--United States; Industries--New York (State)--New York; Fur trade--New York (State)--Albany--History--18th century; New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--History; New York (N.Y.)--History--Colonial period, ca. |
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| | The next day, Thompson learned that he had lost the race to the coast: Indians told him an American ship had sailed in nearly four months earlier. | | | Despite the lucrative trade at Fort Okanogan, the Pacific Fur Company faced numerous financial and personnel problems, all of which were exacerbated by the beginning of war between the United States and Britain in 1812. | | | The ship -- the Tonquin -- left New York in September 1810. |
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| | In New York, he assumed the leadership of establishing the Society of St. John the Baptist,devoted to providing cultural support for the French Canadian immigrants created by the Patriot Rebellion of 1837. | | | The German immigrant (1784) learned of the opportunities on the American fur trade from a fellow ship passanger and became a leading figure in the American fur trade by 1800. | | | He also wrote "The Fur Hunters of the Far West" while living with his Anglo-First Nation family near Winnipeg in 1855 and a history of the Red River settlement in 1856. |
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| | The sunken hull of the Tonquin has yet to be found. | | | The men of the Pacific Fur Company were also of various nationalities. | | | It was only to serve as an administrative outpost for circling "satellites" which also trapped and then reported to the Astoria fort. |
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| | On Apr. 14, 1814, Mackenzie set out for New York, where he remained for some time seeking re-employment by Astor. | | | Returning to Astoria, he occupied himself storing salmon until his party learned of the War with Great Britain. | | | Concluding that Astoria would be captured and goods confiscated, he and his partners there sold out to the North West Company, the following Spring. |
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| | The overland party had left St. Louis only a couple of weeks after the Tonquin had sailed from New York. | | | The overland party, the Tonquin, and the Beaver were the core of Astor's Pacific Coast venture. | | | In addition to the two parties, Astor dispatched one of his many ships, the Beaver, with a load of supplies and some additional workers for the company post. |
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| | Like much of the economic history of the United States during the early republic, this document is closely associated with John Jacob Astor. | | | Annals of Astoria is the story of these men. | | | This is the journal of Duncan McDougall, supervising partner of the Pacific Fur Company at Astoria. |
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| | Contributing the knowledge that the Fraser River was not the Columbia River as he and McKenzie had believed, and was not a feasible trade route. | | | Thompson and his crew arrived at Astoria at midday on July 15, just as the Astor party was about to begin its trip upriver to the Okanogan country. | | | These were people who by experience knew the business, and although not on the payroll, they were helpful in the trade. |
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| | WowEssays.com - Oregon Fur Trade |
| | The Oregon Fur Trade In 1808 Simon Fraser, employed by the Northwest Company, made his way across the Rockies and came down what is known now as the Fraser River to the Columbia. | | | When the war of 1812 broke out the partners in the field at Astoria were afraid of their post being seized. | | | He reached the ocean in 1811 and found an American fur-trading company. |
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| | Oregon History ProjectOregon Biographies Thomas Nuttall |
| | Returning late that year to the threat of war between the United States and Britain, he returned to England to prepare his specimens. | | | The voyagers made their assessment of Nuttall’s sanity after finding dirt in the barrel of his gun. | | | Leaving his job with Barton, he journeyed to St. Louis and landed a job in a newspaper office. |
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| | HistoryLink Essay: John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company establishes Fort Spokane in 1812. |
| | On the other hand, when the war ended in 1814 with the Treaty of Ghent, which provided for return of all captured property, Astor did not get Fort Spokane or his other posts back, because they had not been captured but sold. | | | Meanwhile, Astor, who was born in Germany and arrived in New York as a penniless immigrant, had made a fortune in the fur trade with China. | | | On September 8, 1810, the first Astorians, as the Pacific Fur Company men were known, sailed from New York in the ship Tonquin, which reached the Columbia in the spring of 1811. |
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| | Not only was the fur trading an important business but also it would figure prominently in securing the Northwest for the United States instead of Canada. | | | But the days of the fur trade were over. | | | Located on sand spit at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers, it was in the middle of a long established Indian trail that led from Oregon northward to Fraser River system in Canada. |
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| | This was in the year 1814, and his diary of the journey has become a valuable source of information on the early exploration of the area—though it has been lamented that his attention to detail was not greater. | | | His only stipulation was an agreement in writing that he would be promoted at the end of seven years. | | | During his service with the North West Company, he set out on a "project of discovery" (as he called it) to the North Cascades, where he believed the prospect was good for extending the fur trade. |
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| | Catalog sales of fur by American Express protested at parley. | | | His early operations around the Great Lakes were under another subsidiary, the South West Company, in which Canadian merchants had a part. | | | Antifur forces make plans for Fur Fair; A.F.I. is unimpressed. |
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| | Harlan Smith was able to share his memories of the site as well as his mother's, who had spent a good deal of her childhood there. | | | He also operated a brick manufacturing business for awhile. | | | At that time they found two Clatsop houses at the site, saw the remains of the fort and reported willows growing up inside the remains. |
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| | 1811 Pacific Fur Company Ship Destroyed |
| | Local Indians with furs to sell were invited on board but they refused to sell at the prices offered. | | | Against the advice of his interpreter, the commanding officer Captain Jonathan Thorn ordered the ship to drop anchor in Clayport Harbor (Vancouver Island). | | | and members of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company on the south shore of the Columbia River, the ship Tonquin departed newly established Fort Astoria and sailed up the Pacific Coast. |
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| | The Column's interior 164-step spiral staircase leads to the top of a viewing platform with breathtaking panoramic views of the Astoria Bridge, Pacific Ocean, mouth of the Columbia River, Youngs Bay, various lakes, the shoreline of Washington State, the peaks of Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier, and Saddle Mountain. | | | 8) The Tonquin, the ship belonging to John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, sails from New York, 1810. | | | 11) The Tonquin, the Pacific Fur Company ship, blown up at Vancouver Island, 1811. |
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