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SUMMARY:Contemporary Books Discussion Group
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion of Astoria: Astor and Jefferso
 n’s Lost Pacific Empire by Peter Stark..\nhttps://bettendorflibrary
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Please register to join us for an online d
 iscussion of <em>Astoria: Astor and Jefferson&rsquo\;s Lost Pacific Empire
 </em> by Peter Stark.</p>\n<p>Six years after Lewis and Clark's began thei
 r journey to the Pacific Northwest\, two of the Eastern establishment's le
 ading figures\, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson\, turned their sight
 s to founding a colony akin to Jamestown on the West Coast and transformin
 g the nation into a Pacific trading power. Author and correspondent for <e
 m>Outside</em> magazine Peter Stark recreates this pivotal moment in Ameri
 can history for the first time for modern readers\, drawing on original so
 urce material to tell the amazing true story of the Astor Expedition.</p>\
 n<p>Unfolding over the course of three years\, from 1810 to 1813\, <em>Ast
 oria</em> is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilde
 rness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two ad
 vance parties that reached the West Coast--one crossing the Rockies\, the 
 other rounding Cape Horn--nearly half perished by violence. Others went ma
 d. Within one year\, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria\
 , a trading post on the Columbia River. Though the colony would be short-l
 ived\, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western 
 coast and its founders helped blaze the Oregon Trail.</p>\n<p>Go to www.be
 ttendorflibrary.com/adult-programs for more information.</p>\n<p>Books are
  available on a first-come basis at the Information Desk. You may also cal
 l the Library at 563-344-4179 to have a book signed out to you and placed 
 on the Holds shelf.</p>\n<p>This meeting will take place online via GoToMe
 eting.&nbsp\; After registering\, you will receive an email with the GoToM
 eeting login information.</p>\n<p>This program is funded by the Friends of
  the Bettendorf Public Library.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\nhttps://bettendorflib
 rary.libnet.info/event/4925116
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