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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780550603321

Autore

Gibson James R

Titolo

Farming the frontier [[electronic resource] ] : the agricultural opening of the Oregon country, 1786-1846 / / James R. Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c1985

ISBN

1-283-22642-1

9786613226426

0-7748-5712-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

338.1/09795

Soggetti

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Northwest, Pacific - History

Land use, Rural - Northwest, Pacific - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Maps on lining papers.

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [215]-226.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- Post Farming -- Governor Simpson's Ceconomy: The Origins of Post Farming -- Governor Simpson's Reward: The Results of Post Farming -- Physical Extremes: The Problems of Post Farming -- Company Farming -- Grain for Alaska and Wool for England: The Origins of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company -- Success and Failure: The Performance of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company -- Half Shares and Mean Lands: The Problems of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company -- Homestead Farming -- The Promised Land: The Formation of the Willamette Settlement -- The "Garden of the Columbia": The Success of Homestead Farming -- Mission Farming -- The "Macedonian Cry": The Advent of Missionaries -- The Fruit of the Faithful: The Outcome of Mission Farming -- Divine Testing or Demonic Tempting the Obstacles to Mission Farming -- From Noble Savage to Sturdy Yeoman: Indian Farming -- Dividing the Oregon Country -- Abbreviations -- Sources for Tables -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.