The Final episode in our series on the Columbia. In this episode we will explore the most important moment of Robert Gray's career, analyze the man who was the first American to sail around the world, as well as catch up with Kendrick, and close the book on this exciting tale!

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Continuing the fur trading ventures of the ship Columbia. In this episode, Robert Gray departs as the commander of the expedition. He reunites with an old comrade and finds himself in his most dangerous situation yet...

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In this episode, Robert Gray finally returns home to Boston. He arrived as the first American to circumnavigate the world, and would leave Boston again to change Pacific Northwest History

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A new trading season began in the Spring of 1789. Gray was determined to make this venture work and bring a bundle of furs to the Chinese Markets. The British were still in the are, but Gray would find himself on the brink of an international incident when our old friend Jose Esteban Martinez came to Nootka Sound.

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We continue to follow the expedition of John Kendrick and Robert Gray. When last we left them, they had rounded Cape Horn but were separated. Robert Gray was bent on reaching Nootka Sound alone and carrying out his mission.

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Robert Gray would become the first American to circumnavigate the globe as well as the 1st non-native to sail a ship up the Columbia River. His exploits would increase American claims to the Pacific Northwest substantially. It all started with an expedition under the leadership of John Kendrick in a venture to trade for valuable sea otter furs in Nootka Sound.

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John Meares was attempting to avoid fines and fees and establish a trading post at Nootka Sound for his own profit and the British Empire. Jose Esteban Martinez was on his way to erect a fort at the same place. The two empires would nearly come to war due to the events that followed.

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After Captain Cook's voyage into Nootka Sound, a burgeoning fur trade immerged. Sailors from Russia, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States would sail to Nootka in search of Sea Otter Pelts. World empires would vie to claim Nootka Sound for their own which would lead to a controversy between Spain and Great Britain that almost embroiled Europe in a full scale war.

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