Title: Claiming the Land Forts, Furs and Flags: A Study of Early Oregon Land Ownership Drama Backdrop Slides
1Claiming the LandForts, Furs and Flags A Study
of Early Oregon Land OwnershipDrama Backdrop
Slides
2Sherman and Smith. Western Territories of the
United States, c. 1844. New York Pratt,
Woodford Co. Source http//alabamamaps.ua.edu/h
istoricalmaps/west/. Note Map has been zoomed
in to an area encompassing Astoria on the western
coast of the Columbia River, Ft. Vancouver
further inland, Oregon City and
Champooing/Champoeg (original scale 15,871,000).
3British Frigate (1812) http//www.gutenberg.org/
files/18941/18941-h/images/image-8.jpg
4http//www.nwcouncil.org/history/images/fortvancou
ver.jpg
5http//www.sciencecenterct.org/rbncpage/images/lon
ghouse_TALL.jpg
6http//www.waterplanet.ws/lewisandclark/p12fortw.j
pg
7Franchere, Gabriel. Adventures at Astoria 1810
1814. Published in 1820.
8http//www.waterplanet.ws/lewisandclark/p12fortw.j
pg