p. 5-7, in Preface to Second Edition: Without disparagement of Mr. Irving ’s literary fame, I may venture to say that I found in his work inaccuracies, misstatements (unintentional of course), and a want of chronological order, which struck forcibly one so familiar with the events themselves. I thought I could show or rather that my simple narration, of itself, plainly discovered that some of the young men embarked in that expedition (which founded our Pacific empire), did not merit the ridicule and contempt which Captain T horn attempted to
1811-1814 US Voyage to Northwest Coast of America and America’s First American Settlement
The voyage involved John Jacob Astor and the establishment of Astoria as the first American settlement on the Pacific at the outlet of the Columbia River.