The Columbia River; or, Scenes and adventures during a residence of six years on the western side of the Rocky mountains among various tribes of Indians hitherto unknown: together with a journey acros

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Author: Ross Cox (1793-1853) Year: 1832 Publisher: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley Place: London Description: 2 volumes. xx+333 pages; vi+350 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. (Wagner Camp 43:3; Howes C822; Sabin 17267; Hill 390) The second London edition, preceded by the first London edition of 1831 and the first American edition of 1832, with a slightly different title. Ross Cox arrived in New York as a teenager. His arrival coincided with preparations for The Beaver, a supply ship owned by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, to embark on a voyage to the west Coast of North America. Cox, who had an adventurous spirit signed on as a clerk with the company and set sail in October 1811. The Beaver arrived at Fort Astoria trading post on the Columbia River in May 1812. Less than two months later, Cox and three other clerks left with fur trader John Clarke to set up a trading post adjacent to the North West Company's Spokane House. Cox returned to Fort Astoria in May 1813, only to fine that financial and other difficulties caused by the war between Great Britain and the United States had forced the Pacific Fur Company to terminate his contract. He promptly signed on with the competing NorWesters. He spent the next year at posts in Spokane and the Okanagan, returning to Fort Astoria in time to witness purchase of John Jacob Astor's holdings by the North West Company. Over the ensuing years Cox made severa

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