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.
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