Vikings of the Pacific

Vikings of the Pacific

Agnes Christina Laut, canadian journalist, novelist, historian, and social worker (1871-1936)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- FOREWORD

-03- PART I . DEALING WITH THE RUSSIANS ON THE PACIFIC COAST OF AMERICA

-04- CHAPTER I. 1700 TO 1743 VITUS BERING, THE DANE

-05- CHAPTER II. 1741 TO 1743 CONTINUATION OF BERING, THE DANE

-06- CHAPTER III. 1741 TO 1760 THE SEA-OTTER HUNTERS

-07- CHAPTER IV. 1760 TO 1770 THE OUTLAW HUNTERS

-08- CHAPTER V. 1768 TO 1772 COUNT MAURITIUS BENYOWSKY, THE POLISH PIRATE

-09- PART II. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH ADVENTURERS ON THE WEST COAST OF AMERICA 

-10- CHAPTER VI. 1562 TO 1595 FRANCIS DRAKE IN CALIFORNIA

-11- CHAPTER VII. 1728 TO 1779 CAPTAIN COOK IN AMERICA

-12- CHAPTER VIII. 1785 TO 1792 ROBERT GRAY

-13- CHAPTER IX. 1778 TO 1790  JOHN LEDYARD, THE FORERUNNER OF LEWIS AND CLARK

-14- CHAPTER X. 1779 TO 1794 GEORGE VANCOUVER

-15- PART III . EXPLORATION GIVES PLACE TO FUR TRADE

-16- CHAPTER XI. 1579 TO 1867  THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN FUR COMPANY

-17- CHAPTER XII. 1747 TO 1818 BARANOF, THE LITTLE CZAR OF THE PACIFIC