Farming the Frontier
The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country, 1786-1846
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774844987
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774802192
- Publish Date
- Jan 1985
- List Price
- $67.00
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Description
In its rich detail, this book provides the first comprehensive history of the agricultural development of the Oregon Country. Based on extensive research in Hudsons's Bay Company documents, missionary records, and military and private papers, this book traces the crucial transition of the Pacific Northwest from a fur-trading outpost to an agricultural settlement -- a process which also saw the shift from British to American jurisdiction in the area.
About the author
James R. Gibson is a professor emeritus and Senior Scholar of the Department of Geography at York University in Toronto, where he taught from 1966 until 2000; he has also taught at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, and Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Editorial Reviews
The amount and quality of research that have gone into Farming the Frontier are truly impressive.
Canadian Geographer
