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The American West: A Tale of Two Fur Men
In the spring of 1811, sixteen men made their way through the damp, lush undergrowth of thick evergreen forest overlooking the Columbia River in present-day Oregon and built a fur post they called Astoria.
Named after John Jacob Astor, an important New York entrepreneur and founder of both the American Fur and the Pacific Fur Companies, the completed fort consisted of the factor's residence, a powder magazine, a storehouse, and cabins for the employees, all surrounded and protected by a log stockade.
The strong structure would provide the home base for Astor’s far-ranging trappers and traders as they competed with the powerful North West Company which was owned and operated by Canadians.
Astor's plans to dominate the western fur trade proved to be unsuccessful. By mid-1812, the United States and Great Britain were once again at war and, in October of the following year, operatives of the North West Company, by now Astor's arch-rival along the Columbia, marched on Astoria and occupied the post.
They commandeered all the furs, furnishings, and supplies in exchange for a cash settlement worth only about one-third of the fort's actual value.
In December the British formally occupied Astoria and changed its name to Fort George. Now,
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Manitoba History: Fault Lines: Race and Gender in the Fur Trade Family of Alexander Ross
by Margaret Shultz
Edmonton, Alberta
Number 90, Fall 2019
You ask how I would like to go to Canada. I must tell you the plain truth for many reasons I would rather not. The first is how would an uneducated dark half breed look among the fair & accomplished ladies of that civilized country and society [?][1]
Thus wrote Henrietta Ross Black to her brother James Ross, soon after her marriage in November of 1853. She, along with the rest of her brothers and sisters, had a typical genealogy for Red River, the first European-style settlement in what would become Western Canada: she was the daughter of an Indigenous mother and a Scottish father. Her evaluation of herself as some sort of uneducated native, though, did not align with the reality of her background. The brother Henrietta was writing to was studying at the University of Toronto. Her recent marriage was to John Black, a white, educated Presbyterian minister. Photographs depict her dressed in prim Victorian styles, and she was the daughter of Alexander Ross, an influential Red River citizen. With this background, why would she evaluate herself in such unfavourable terms? A reading of the Ross familys personal corresponden
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Washington State Congealed School 1891 - 1936
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