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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Robert Gray, George Baker Leavitt, Sr., Captain, George Comer, Charles Rawden Maclean, Simon Metcalfe, Max Hardberger, Joseph Hazelwood, Matthew Turner, Christian Theodore Pedersen, Robert Bennet Forbes, Robert Waterman, Phil Harris, George Pollard, Jr., Eber Bunker, Abel Douglass, Richard Brooks, Robert Graham Dunlop, Cornelius Jensen, Anna Shchetinina, John Bollons, Charles William Barkley, Nathaniel Palmer, Mercator Cooper, Sig Hansen, Princess Fawzia Farouk of Egypt, Patrick Hayes, William Driver, Robert Wilson, Mayhew Folger, Morrissey Johnson, James Davis, James Riley, Molly Kool, Henry Timberlake, Thomas Musgrave, Jens Jacob Eschels, William H. Marston, Absalom Boston, Joseph Warren Holmes, Leonard LaRue, Patrick Barry Hayes, Jacob C. Bogart, Charles Melville Scammon, William Lee, William B. Dunlap, William Davies Evans, Ebenezer P. Dorr, Danuta Kobyli ska-Walas, William Snelgrave, Francois Bellet, Samuel Crowell, Bernard Fokke, David Higgins, John Martel, Jean-Baptiste Labelle, Robert Richard Randall, John Daniel, Simon Peter Randolph, Joseph William Hadley, Joao de Trasto, Bernard Marot, Nehemiah McGray, James C. Bartling, Charles Alfred Auckland Kellet, Charles Alfred Kellett, Henry Baley, Sir James Anderson, Leonard Edgcombe. Excerpt: Robert Gray (May 10, 1755 - c. July, 1806) was an American merchant sea-captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region. In the course of those voyages, Gray explored portions of that coast and, in 1790, completed the first American circumnavigation of the world. Perhaps his most remembered accomplishment from his explorations was his coming upon and then naming of the Columbia River, in 1792 while on his secon...
