Eminent Astorians from John Jacob Astor to the salmon kings


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Marks the bicentennial of Astoria in 2011. Each of nine essays presents a literary biography of a figure who looms large in Astoria's history, from Comcomly, the powerful, one-eyed leader of the Chinook Tribe when Lewis and Clark arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1805, to the “Salmon Kings”, who capitalized on the region's natural bounty from the 1870s to the 1910s.

Author(s): Karen Kirtley, Stephen Dow Beckham
Document: Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ]
Edition: 1st Edition
Published: 2010
Physical Description: 272 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Genre: Biographies
Contents:

Introduction / by Stephen Dow Beckham Comcomly : Chinook Nation CEO / by John Terry John Jacob Astor I : "A most excellent man"? / by Robert Michael Pyle George Gibbs / by Stephen Dow Beckham Ranald MacDonald and Astoria / by Frederik L. Schodt Captain George Flavel and the building of Astoria / by William F. Willingham Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair / by Jean M. Ward Silas Bryant Smith / by Stephen Dow Beckham Molding Astoria -the role of two editors / by Sandra Haarsager The salmon kings / by Liisa Penner

Subjects:

Astoria (Or.) Biography, Biographies, Oregon Astoria

Related Places: City of Astoria

 

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Last updated: 2026-09-10