BUILD AND LOSE AN EMPIRE: No one outside the Pacific Northwest seems to remember much about the Astor party. Peter Stark, writing a book about the last open spaces in America checked into a hotel in John Day, Oregon and began to change that. Who was John Day, he wondered? When he found out that the trapper had come west with an overland expedition, was robbed and stripped naked in the wilderness, only to survive physically but lose his mind, Stark knew he had a book in the making. Check out his work Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (2014).
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