This is a little off target but we're always traveling from east to west. Has
anyone heard of this work?

"A Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America" by Gabriel Franchere edited by
Milo Milton Quaife c) The Citadel Press, New York 222 Park Avenue South, NY,
NY published simultaneously in Canada by George J. McLeod Ltd., 73 Bathurst
St., Toronto 2B, Ontario. Printed by Noble Offset Printers, New York.
Manufactured in the United States of America.

"An early nineteenth-century journal of an astonishing voyage from Montreal
to the Columbia River via Cape Horn, including descriptions of the court of
Tamehamema of Hawaii and the founding of Fort Astoria."

From the jacket:

     By 1811 the American fur trade, under the aegis of John Jacob Astor, had
burgeoned into a tremendous enterprise. One of Astor's associates was the
Montreal-born Canadian, Gabriel Franchere.
     Franchere kept a diary of one of the most extraordinary voyages ever
experienced. Leaving Montreal in 1811, he arrived in New York, where he and a
group of other young Americans and Canadians shipped out on the vessel
Tonquin, bound for the Pacific Northwest. The thrilling, danger-packed voyage
around Cape Horn to the rugged Pacific Coast included a stop-over in Hawaii,
where the voyagers were royally entertained at the court of Tamehamema.
     Franchere provides us with colorful descriptions of the founding of Fort
Astoria on the mouth of the Columbia River and its subsequent surrender to
British forces during the War of 1812.
     The book ends with an account of the overland return to Montreal -- a
journey as intrepid and dramatic as the sea voyage out.
     This volume is a reprint of the edition published in 1854.

I don't know if anyone is familiar with this work but the passage back is
almost unbelievable, most covered in canoe with very few portages of any
great distance, the largest would be from Montreal to the Upper Champlain to
arrive back in New York. Back in Graduate School it boggled my mind, the
travel across the northern North American continent by canoe!

Sincerely,
George J. Myers, Jr.