by
Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
WHILE ENGAGED in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United...