For those interested in PNW history and the particularity the American participation now is the time.
This is the 200th Anniversary of the establishment of Astoria.
check it out
Visit if you can.
http://www.astoria200.org/
Yep.
But remember, from early on NWC visited ( Thompson visited just 2 mo.s after Astor's people arrived , & in just a couple of years, it was sold to the NWC. The Amer. presence was spotty until around the 1840s.(30 years latter) It was the Brits, that opened, explored & developed the area.
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