Author Name: Binns, Archie
Title: Peter Skene Ogden: Fur Trader Pacific Northwest and Hudson's Bay Company History
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Binfords & Mort, Publishers 1967
Seller ID: 176
Former library book with the following treatments: stamps to the front and rear endpapers, stamps to the edge of the pageblock, the front flap of the DJ has been neatly cut off, and glued onto the ffep. All else very good. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 363 pages; Archie Binns writes this biography of Peter Skene Ogden-trader, trapper, explorer, diplomat, patriarch, and a Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia, during the hectic days of the Oregon boundary settlement. He led trapping parties from the Rockies to the Pacific. In 1825, he made the first recorded exploration of the inland Oregon region. He discovered and named Mount Shasta. The city of Ogden and Ogden River in Utah, are named in his honor.
Hudson Bay Company, Oregon History, Fur Trading, Fur Trader, Americana
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19.00 USD
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