Gabriel Franchère 1786-1863
Franchère was a native of Montreal and joined the Pacific Fur Company as a merchant apprentice, arriving at Fort Astoria on the Tonquin.
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- Lived from 1786 to 1863
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Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 The First American Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchère, translated by J.V. Huntington
The author, a Canadian, was one of the party sent out by John Jacob Astor to establish his colony at Astoria and he describes the voyage up the Columbia
376 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates + 8 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements : frontispiece, illustrations (plates) ; 19 cm
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Last updated: 2023-08-28