Title: Astoria Pdf John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire
In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, 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.
Six years after Lewis and Clark's began their journey to the Pacific Northwest, two of the Eastern establishment's leading figures, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson, turned their sights to founding a colony akin to Jamestown on the West Coast and transforming the nation into a Pacific trading power. Author and correspondent for Outside magazine Peter Stark recreates this pivotal moment in American history for the first time for modern readers, drawing on original source material to tell the amazing true story of the Astor Expedition.
Unfolding over the course of three years, from 1810 to 1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilderness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two advance parties that reached the West Coast—one crossing the Rockies, the other rounding Cape Horn—nearly half perished by violence. Others went mad. Within one year, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River. Though the colony would be short-lived, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western coast and its founders helped blaze the Oregon Trail.
Forgotten Astoria I can not begin to comprehend how much research went into compiling this book . I really appreciate how the author and editors put this little known history together. I have gone to Cape Disapointment and Astoria a few times but never heard anything about these early Astorians. All credit is given to the Louis and Clark expedition. I can only wonder what the American west coast would have been like if Astor had hired someone like Louis and Clark to head his hoped for empire . If a person is even a little interested in American history and early pioneering struggles they should read this book.Astoria - Astor's biggest disappointment Although I do enjoy historical books, my interests usually run to ancient history (usually European or Egyptian). That being said, I have also read some early American history (Lewis and Clark exploration,mainly) but I had never heard of this exploration and settlement driven by John Jacob Astor. That is why I chose to read this particular book. It was very interesting, sometimes scary, and really brought out the complete lack of communication that explorers had in that time period. Add that to all the problems and mishaps that occurred makes you wonder how anyone survived or took the time to make notes for future generations! The story, itself, ended rather abruptly but the notes that followed as well as what happened to all the people involved, added to finishing off the whole story.Part of how the West Was settled Review While this book does not have quite the style and grace of a David McCullough, or the breathless wonder of a Stephen Ambrose, it is nevertheless a very readable interesting story of the beginnings of the "westward ho" expansion of what today is the United States. Of course, at the time (early 1800s) it was not the United States. The country was just established, and the war of 1812 would determine the outcome of the story told in this book.While I enjoyed enlarging my personal cache of American history, what I found most fascinating in this book is the way in which personality determined the outcome of aspects of the story. From Captain Thorn, war hero, whose dictatorial style turns out to be totally unsuited for the ship portion of the journey to the west coast, to Wilson Hunt whose leadership approach was based on consensus style worked well when the journey was going well, but failed when things got tough.The book is not sparing on brutal details. Exploration journeys were too frequently riddled with brutality and brute force. In other words, this is not a glossy history. But the fact that as humans we can be brutal, or the fact that Americans have been and can be ruthless--that should not surprise the reader or cause the reader to conclude that the book is not worth reading.
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