Pacific Destiny
Subtitle: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: June 29, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780765303103
Subjects: History - U.S; History; History - General History; History: American; United States - State & Local - General; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Americas (North Central South West Indies)
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.