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From: S.E.
Date: 2/11/2002
Time: 1:10:01 AM
Remote Name: 206.163.87.30
We all remember Wahington Irving as the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" with the headless horseman...Mr. Irving was famous and wealthy...one of his New York City friends was a Mr. John Jacob Astor (whom Astoria, Oregon is named after). Mr Astor convinced Washington Irving that he needed to write a book about "the Astorians"---the fur trading business that was set up at the mouth of the Columbia by Astor's company. There are many first-hand accounts of the Chinooks in the book that Irving wrote.
The book lives on the Internet and you can download it for free. It'll fit onto a series of floppy disks, and then you can run the disks on a PC and print it out on a printer (school, school office after hours (?) or at work). Punch each page on a three-hole punch, put 'em all in a 3-ring binder and you have it forever.
Also--on the 'Net--is Edgar Allen Poe's professional review of the book, from when he worked as a book reviewer for the Baltimore, Maryland newspaper. You can save and print this one, too.
S.E.