Alex Christy

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A few years after Zagoskin’s travels, the panhandle lease to the Hudson’s Bay Company expired in 1849. It was renewed for another ten years but with two significant changes in its terms. The Hudson’s Bay Company was not required to ship foodstuffs because many of its most productive Oregon farms had been lost to the United States with the 1846 division of the Oregon country. Those that were still in operation above the forty-ninth parallel were suffering from a shortage of workers. Gold, it seems, had been discovered in California. The other significant change was that there was no requirement ...more
Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land
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