Ronda, James P., — Astoria & Empire.

Lincoln & London, Univ of Nebraska Press, (1990). VG PB. Oregon history to 1859. First full length study of Astoria to appear since Washington Irving's Astoria in 1836. It moves. with a sweep and dimension that places the little post on the banks of the Columbia in the vortex of world events, a pawn in games of intentaional rivalry and chance.