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Pub. Date
2023
Description
"This town has stories," Jo's mother said. "You're the one to tell them." Now her mother is gone, and Jo blames herself. In the Gilded Age boomtown of Astoria, Oregon, she sets out to prove herself as a girl reporter. Following the trail of a missing maid, she finds her newspaper's publisher dead. Left in charge of the paper, she discovers danger is a lot closer than she thinks. In present-day Astoria, Olivia is running from her failures. The more...
Author
Pub. Date
c2014.
Description
In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon...
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