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Paperback Eminent Astorians: From John Jacob Astor to the Salmon Kings Book

ISBN: 087071631X

ISBN13: 9780870716317

Eminent Astorians: From John Jacob Astor to the Salmon Kings

Eminent Astoriansmarks the bicentennial of Astoria in 2011. Each of nine essays presents a literary biography of a figure who looms large in Astoria's history, from Comcomly, the powerful, one-eyed leader of the Chinook Tribe when Lewis and Clark arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1805, to the "Salmon Kings" who capitalized on the region's natural bounty from the 1870s to the 1910s. Modeled after Lytton Strachey's literary portraits in...

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