Books by James P. Ronda

In his 1836 account, Washington Irving immortalized Astoria, but it has been a footnote to the history of western expansion - a reminder of John Jacob Astor's failed attempt to establish a fur-trading empire at the mouth of the Columbia from 1810 to 1813. This book tells the importance of the Astoria venture.

An important contribution to Indian ethnohistory and to the literature of the Lewis and Clark expedition.