Pacific Destiny
Subtitle: The Three Century Journey to the Oregon Country (Tom Doherty Associates Book)
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9781417636679
Subjects: United States - State & Local - General; History - U.S
First sentence: The first trails to Oregon were sea-lanes, the wakes left by Spanish caravels and fragatos with lateen sails bulging in ferocious winds and masts bent perilously as they blundered along the Pacific coast of North America in pursuit of obscure missions approved by the viceroy of Mexico.