Adventures of Oregon: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade

Chronicles of America #22

by Constance Lindsay Skinner, Allen Johnson (Editor)

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

290 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1920

About the author

Skinner was a Canadian born writer and historian who moved to New York in her early 20s and worked in the publishing industry at Macmillan, while writing children's books. She freelanced as a theatre critic for the New York Herald Tribune. She assumed editorial responsibility for a major nonfiction series, The Rivers of America, and edited the first six volumes. Primarily self-educated, she told one reader she had never attended a "school or a college."

Known for wearing bright colors, particularly red dresses, along with beads, bracelets, and bangles. She was also an early environmentalist; her father had worked for the Hudson Bay Company and she retained deep fondness for the remote British Columbia region where she had grown up.