Astoria, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire: a story of wealth, ambition, and survival, Peter Stark
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Astoria, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire: a story of wealth, ambition, and survival, Peter Stark
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eng
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Astoria
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Peter Stark
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John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire: a story of wealth, ambition, and survival
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Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing
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adult
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