3 似ている本： 西部初期の旅 1748-1846
アストリア：ロッキー山脈を越える事業の逸話
In 1811 a group of American traders built a fort at the mouth of the Columbia River, named Fort Astoria in honor of its financier, John Jacob Astor. Envisioned as the spur of a fur-trading empire, by 1813 the project was a business failure and the fort was surrendered to the British. But in its short life Astoria rendered incalculable benefits to public understanding of the Great Northwest. The…
共通テーマ：Fourrures, Fur trade, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel
ボンネビル大尉の冒険
While engaged in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United States, was accustomed to have at his board various persons of adventurous turn, some of…
共通テーマ：Fur trade, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel
カナダの奥地
The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity on The Backwoods of Canada, by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers a vivid and honest account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a helf years living in the bush…
共通テーマ：Descriptions et voyages, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Travel