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Farming the Frontier

Farming the Frontier

The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country, 1786-1846

Published by: UBC Press

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9780774857123
Published: October 2007

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In its rich detail, this book provides the first comprehensive historyof the agricultural development of the Oregon Country. Based onextensive research in Hudsons’s Bay Company documents, missionaryrecords, and military and private papers, this book traces the crucialtransition of the Pacific Northwest from a fur-trading outpost to anagricultural settlement -- a process which also saw the shift fromBritish to American jurisdiction in the area. </div> </div> <div id="tab-2" class="tabs__panel tabs__panel--content" style="display: none"> <div class="tabs__content"> TablesIllustrationsPrologue: Opening the Oregon CountryPart One: Post Farming: Hudson’s Bay Company Agriculture This Side The Mountains1. Governor Simpson's Economy: The Origins of Post Farming2. Governor Simpson’s Reward: The Results of Post Farming3. Physical Extremes: The Problems of Post FarmingPart Two: Company Farming: Puget’s Sound Agricultural Company Operations on the Cowlitz Portage4. Grain for Alaska and Wool for England: The Origins of the Puget’s Sound Agricultural Company5. Success and Failure: The Performance of the Puget’s Sound Agricultural Company6. Half Shares and Mean Lands: The Problems of the Puget’s Sound Agricultural CompanyPart Three: Homestead Farming: Pioneer Agriculture in the Willamette Valley7. The Promised Land: The Formation of the Willamette Settlement8. The “Garden of the Columbia”: The Success of Homestead FarmingPart Four: Mission Farming: Protestant and Catholic Husbandry on the Lower Columbia9. The “Macedonian Cry”: The Advent of Missionaries10. The Fruit of the Faithful: The Outcome of Mission Farming11. Divine Testing or Demonic Tempting: The Obstacles to Mission Farming12. From Noble Savage to Sturdy Yeoman: Indian FarmingEpilogue: Dividing the Oregon CountryAbbreviationsSources for TablesBibliographyNotesIndex </div> </div> <div id="tab-3" class="tabs__panel tabs__panel--authors" style="display: none"> <div class="tabs__content"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"><html><head><meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"><title>James R. Gibson is a professor in the department ofgeography at York University.