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Wilson Price Hunt (March 20, 1783 – April 13, 1842) was an early pioneer and explorer of the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Wilson Price Hunt was to lead the second, overland, opening a trail from St. Louis to the Columbia, and selecting sites for the network of trading posts Astor intended to build along the route. Delayed by the problems of recruiting men and gathering supplies from the fur-trade centers of Montreal, Michilimackinac, and St. Louis, Hunt’s ...
Wilson Price Hunt was the personal representative of John Jacob Astor among the active partners in the Astoria enterprise. He was, in terms of today, the chairman of the board of direc
Wilson Price Hunt. 1782-1842. American explorer of the trans-Mississippi West. In 1810-12 Hunt lead a party called the Astorians—named after their sponsor, John Jacob Astor—up the Missouri River and across the continent in an effort to establish a fur trading station at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Its leader, an unlikely man for such a demanding assignment, was a youthful merchant of St. Louis, Wilson Price Hunt, who had moved to the Louisiana Territory from Trenton, New Jersey, in 1804.
Wilson Price Hunt (1783-1842) In 1809, John Jacob Astor selected Wilson Price Hunt to be his St. Louis agent for a new enterprise—the Pacific Fur Company—and to lead an overland expedition to establish a fur post at the mouth of the Columbia River. Hunt was born at Asbury, New Jersey, in 1783.
Albatros was an American-owned ship which brought to W. Price Hunt, partner of the Pacific Fur Company, at its Astoria post, news of the War of 1812. Hunt had left Astoria on August 4, 1812 on a trading mission to Russia, where his ship Beaver was damaged by a storm in the Bering Sea.
