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Extract from the Astoria Travel Guides: Set near the mouth of the Columbia River,
ASTORIA
was founded in 1811 as a private venture - a base for exporting furs to Asia - by the millionaire John Jacob Astor. "Fort Astoria" survived only a painful year and a half, beset by natu ral disasters and internal feuds, before it was sold to the British: Washington Irving made the best of the saga in his novel
Astoria
. A small replica of the old fort stands at 15th and Exchange streets, but nowadays many of Astoria's canneries and port facilities have vanished - the disused railroad tracks now gath er rust along the water - and the city is trying to reinvent...
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Three Western Narratives: A Tour on the Prairies/Astoria/the Adventures of Captain Bonneville (LIBRARY OF AMERICA)
Astorian Adventure: The Journal of Alfred Seton 1811-1815
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