| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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The Tide of Empire: America's March to the Pacific. By Michael Golay. (New York: Wiley, 2003. xiv, 386 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-37791-0.)

U.S. and British explorers established conflicting claims to the Pacific Northwest during the late eighteenth century. Following the U.S.-British agreement for joint occupation of the Oregon country in 1818, the competition for furs and other items of trade between the British North West Company and John Jacob Astor's Astoria prompted an intense economic and imperialistic rivalry. During the early nineteenth century, competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Rocky Mountain Fur Company brought missionaries, traders, explorers, and opportunists to the region. All of the well-known Pacific Northwest characters are present in this book: Peter Skene Ogden, Jedediah Smith, John McLoughlin, Jason Lee, Thomas Nuttall, Nathaniel Wyeth, Marcus Whitman, Richard H. Dana, and others explored, exploited, mapped, and settled along the coast from the Oregon country into California. Sen. Thomas Hart Benton's promotion of U.S. interests in the Pacific Northwest and the three trips of John C. Frémont publicized opportunities in the area. Missionaries and army officers also contributed to the interest and imperialistic designs of the United States.

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