Battle for the Columbia River : the rise of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company /
"While the Civil War raged, a group of captains, merchants, bankers and gamblers in the Pacific Northwest formed the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. The first capitalistic enterprise in the new state, they aimed to develop the richest and most powerful transportation operation in the region, d...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charleston, SC :
The History Press,
[2023]
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| Summary: | "While the Civil War raged, a group of captains, merchants, bankers and gamblers in the Pacific Northwest formed the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. The first capitalistic enterprise in the new state, they aimed to develop the richest and most powerful transportation operation in the region, dominating hundreds of miles of river traffic from the Pacific coast to Montana. Achieving such status was anything but easy. They battled competitors, lawyers, the river itself and defectors within their management team. In the unregulated business environment of the nineteenth century, men like John Ainsworth made their own rules, often deploying frontier justice against their enemies." -- |
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| Physical Description: | 154 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154). |
| ISBN: | 9781467154086 1467154083 |