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Peter Stark, correspondent for Outside magazine, talked about his book, Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empireread more

Peter Stark, correspondent for Outside magazine, talked about his book, Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire - A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival, in which he recalls the partnership between business magnate John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson to create a colony on the Pacific coast in the early 19th century. The settlement, dubbed Astoria, had a short existence at the mouth of the Columbia River in present day Oregon. In his book, the author reports that Astor envisioned the settlement as a central trading post on the West Coast and Jefferson imagined a separate democratic state in the West that would eventually spread eastward and reach the rest of the country. Peter Stark spoke at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon. close

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Location:
Portland, Oregon, United States
First Aired:
Mar 23, 2014 | 6:45pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
Last Aired:
Aug 14, 2016 | 2:05am EDT | C-SPAN 3

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  • Mar 23, 2014 | 6:45pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Mar 29, 2014 | 9:29am EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Apr 23, 2014 | 8:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Apr 24, 2014 | 12:53am EDT | C-SPAN 2
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