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• Author/Creator:Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company.
  
• Title:Articles of Agreement ...between Nathaniel J. Wyeth...and Joseph Thing, 1834-1839.
  
• Physical Description:8 p.
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: WA MSS S-934 (folio)
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Accompanied by Joseph Thing's letter to W. Tucker & sons, 1839, January 29.
  
• Summary:Nathaniel Wyeth hires Joseph Thing to take charge of a fur-trading expedition in the West. Thing's engagement was later extended two years. Returning to Boston via Cape Horn, Thing's ship is caught in a storm and had to stop at Rio de Janeiro for repairs. His letter to W. Tucker and Sons gives details of the damage suffered.
  
• Other formats:Typed transcript available.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company, Articles of Agreement. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Thing, Joseph.
  Wyeth, Nathaniel J. (Nathaniel Jarvis), 1802-1856.
  Columbia River Fishing and Trading Company.
  Kent (Bark)
  Fur trade--West (U.S.)
  
• Occupation:Fur traders United States.