The Columbia River . Astoria in an Old Astoria, Looking up and across the Columbia River,Photo, by Woodfield. The Fur-Traders and their Stations 135 fur-trade were relatively unimportant in comparisonwith the influence of their lives in the direction of per-manent American occupation. It seemed the appoint-ment of destiny that the American should play secondfiddle to his British rival in the fur-trade. But astenfold, a thousandfold compensation, the Americanfarmers, home-builders, and tradesmen were to ac-quire final possession of one of the goodliest lands onwhich the Stars
The Columbia River . Astoria in an Old Astoria, Looking up and across the Columbia River,Photo, by Woodfield. The Fur-Traders and their Stations 135 fur-trade were relatively unimportant in comparisonwith the influence of their lives in the direction of per-manent American occupation. It seemed the appoint-ment of destiny that the American should play secondfiddle to his British rival in the fur-trade. But astenfold, a thousandfold compensation, the Americanfarmers, home-builders, and tradesmen were to ac-quire final possession of one of the goodliest lands onwhich the Stars and Stripes have ever floated. Thebateaux and canoes must needs give way to the steam-boat and the launch, the coureur des hois to the lum-berman and the miner and farmer, and the picturesqueemporium of the British fur-trader on the River tothe modern American city. We shall, therefore, morefittingly chronicle the later American fur-traders asa part of the march of their countrymen to permanentownership of Oregon. CHAPTER VI The Coming of the Missionar
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