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Queens neighborhood named for a fur trader
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astoria
Alternative clues for the word astoria
- Oregon coastal city
- Half of a deluxe New York hotel name
- Oregon city that was the first permanent U.S. settlement west of the Rockies
- Oregon seaport
- With "Waldorf," a famous hotel
- Oregon port named for a 19th-century multi-millionaire
- Waldorf hotel — London music venue, demolished 2009
- Port on the Columbia River
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Astoria is a history book published in 1836 by Washington Irving . The full title being " Astoria: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains ". The book was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's expedition to Oregon in ...
Usage examples of astoria.
The four tribes nearest to Astoria, and with whom the traders had most intercourse, were, as has heretofore been observed, the Chinooks, the Clatsops, the Wahkiacums, and the Cathlamets.
The part of the cargo destined for the use of Astoria was landed, and the ship left free to proceed on her voyage.
As the Tonquin was to coast to the north, to trade for peltries at the different harbors, and to touch at Astoria on her return in the autumn, it was unanimously determined that Mr.
The loss of the Tonquin was a grievous blow to the infant establishment of Astoria, and one that threatened to bring after it a train of disasters.
On the 5th of October, in the evening, the little community at Astoria was enlivened by the unexpected arrival of a detachment from Mr.
Stuart was apprehensive there might be a difficulty of subsisting his whole party throughout the winter, he had sent one half back to Astoria, retaining with him only Ross, Montigny, and two others.
Still the little handful of adventurers kept up their spirits in their lonely fort at Astoria, looking forward to the time when they should be animated and reinforced by the party under Mr.
They were yet, in fact, a thousand miles from Astoria, but the distance was unknown to them at the time: everything before and around them was vague and conjectural, and wore an aspect calculated to inspire despondency.
Hunt was able, therefore, to collect more distinct tidings concerning the settlement of Astoria and its affairs.
These had reached Astoria nearly a month previously, and, judging from their own narrow escape from starvation, had given up Mr.
On this river they procured two canoes, in which they dropped down the stream to its confluence with the Columbia, and then down that river to Astoria, where they arrived haggard and emaciated, and perfectly in rags.
Louis to Astoria, by the route travelled by Hunt and M'Kenzie, was upwards of thirty-five hundred miles, though in a direct line it does not exceed eighteen hundred.
From these different fisheries of the river tribes, the establishment at Astoria had to derive much of its precarious supplies of provisions.
AS the spring opened, the little settlement of Astoria was in agitation, and prepared to send forth various expeditions.
After remaining here two or three days, they all set out on their return to Astoria accompanied by Mr.