*** start of the project gutenberg ebook 1372 *** the adventures of captain bonneville digested from his journal by washington irving originally published in 1837 introductory notice while engaged in writing an account of the grand enterprise of astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. nowhere did i pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of mr. john jacob astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the united...