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Article: Columbia River Exploration and Settlement
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COLUMBIA RIVER EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT
COLUMBIA RIVER EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT.
For nearly two centuries before Europeans first saw the Columbia River, geographers eagerly theorized that a Great River of the West penetrated deep into the center of the North American continent. A number of speculative maps variously located this river between forty-two and fifty degrees north latitude and connected it to the mythical Northwest Passage, thus making it part of a navigable water route between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. No easy water route across the continent existed, but the belief that whoever claimed this river would control the commerce of North America eventually proved ...
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