Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters
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Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters
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Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters

Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters

by Agnes C. Laut
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters

Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters

by Agnes C. Laut

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781926971001
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Publication date: 04/15/2011
Series: Classics West
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Agnes C. Laut was born in Huron County, Ontario, in 1871. She became a reporter and editorial writer for the Manitoba Free Press in the 1890s and later a wide-ranging travel writer. Her books include Pioneers of the Pacific Coast, The Cariboo Trail, Lords of the North, Heralds of Empire, The Story of the Trapper, Pathfinders of the West, Vikings of the Pacific, and The Romance of the Rails. She died in 1936.

Table of Contents

Introduction Rosemary Neering 1

The Voyage of the Golden Hind 9

Vitus Bering on the Pacific 15

The Outlaw Hunters 27

Cook and Vancouver 39

'Alexander Mackenzie, From Canada, By Land' 59

The Descent of the Fraser River 69

Thompson and the Astorians 79

The Passing of the Fur Lords 89

Endnotes 101

Bibliographical Note 102

Index 104

About the Author 110

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