CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Astoria March 29, 2014
And, actually, whats surprising about it is how this story was very well known in its day, in 1836 when Washington Irving was commissioned by John Jacob Astor to write the story of these events 20 years after they occurred. Irvings book, also called astoria, was a best seller of 1836. And those events have been largely forgotten in the american consciousness. I think you in oregon know a little bit more about them, or im sure some of you know a lot more about them. But in the national consciousness, theyre largely forgotten except among historians and people who really follow western history. ...