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Index
Abandonment plans, 265 -66, 278 -82,
285, 297
Adams, John Quincy, xii, 77, 79 - 80,
82, 84, 291, 302, 304 -5, 306, 310 -
12, 332 -34
Aird, James, 127 -28, 136, 146, 147
Aitken, Job, 98, 114, 115
Alaska, Russian fur trade in, 65 - 66
Albatross (ship), 283, 285 -86, 297, 300,
303
All Saint's Day, 185, 218
American Fur Company, 42, 45, 47, 79,
210, 330
Ames, Edward, 97
Anderson, Peter, 97
Argonaut (ship), 35
Argus (later Wasp) (ship), 263
Arikara Indians, 129, 155 -56, 157 -64
Armstrong, John, 272
Ashton, Joseph, 293
Astor, John Jacob: American fur empire
envisioned by, 1 - 2, 36, 223 ; creates
Pacific Fur CO., 58 - 59, 62, 87 ; fears
North West Co.-British alliance, 244 ;
federal backing sought by, 38 - 46
passim, 52 - 53, 55 ; federal protection
sought by, 243, 258 -63, 266 -73;
Floyd Bill and, 333 -34; hires Hunt,
50 - 51, 59, 87 ; Irving and, 335, 338 -
39; laments sale and loss of Astoria,
290 -91, 300 - 301, 315, 334 -35;
Lewis and Clark and, 29, 31 ; Mack-
enzie and, 280 -81, 304 ; meeting
with Gallatin, 267 ; meeting with
Jefferson, 45 - 47 ; meeting with
Monroe, 259 -60; in Montreal, 24 -
25, 29, 47, 55 ; offer to buy Michili-
mackinac Co., 46 - 49, 55 - 62 passim;
overland route, 128, 164 ; planning
for Astoria, 37 - 64 ; Porter's biogra-
phy of, 343 ; restoration efforts, 302 -
11 passim; Russian strategies, 71 - 86
passim; schemes to save Astoria,
251 -54, 258 -63, 266 -76 passim;
and Tonquin, 94 - 96, 98 - 100 ; warns
of Indians, 34, 100 - 101 ; War of 1812
and, 242, 249, 250 -52; illus., 3
Astor, Magdalen, 78. See also Bentzon,
Mrs. Adrian
Astoria: as diplomatic issue, 304 -15,
327 -35; as symbol, xii, 327, 334. See
also Fort Astoria
Astoria (book by Irving), 326, 336, 338 -
42
Atcheson, Nathaniel, 56 - 57, 245 -47,
253, 255 -56
Athabasca Lake, 6 - 7, 27 - 28
Bagot, Charles, 311 -13
Baker, Anthony St. John, 306 -7
Baker Bay, 114 -15, 197 -99
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 342
Banks, Sir Joseph, 12, 27 - 28, 133
Baranov, Alexander, 65, 66, 68 - 69, 72,
74 - 75, 242, 283
Barrell, Joseph, 32
Barton, Dr. Benjamin Smith, 122 -23
Bartram, William, 122
Bathurst, Lord, 255 -56, 307 -8, 313
Bayly, William, 33
Beaver (ship), 208, 211, 236, 237, 240,
242, 250 -51, 265, 283 -84; illus., 241

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Publication Information: Book Title: Astoria & Empire. Contributors: James P. Ronda - author. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press. Place of Publication: Lincoln, NE. Publication Year: 1990. Page Number: 389.
    
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