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Wilson Price Hunt (March 20, 1783 – April 13, 1842) was an early pioneer and explorer of the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Wilson Price Hunt (1783-1842) In 1809, John Jacob Astor selected Wilson Price Hunt to be his St. Louis agent for a new enterprise—the Pacific Fur Company —and to lead an overland expedition to establish a fur post at the mouth of the Columbia River. Hunt was born at Asbury, New Jersey, in 1783.
Wilson Price Hunt was born to a prosperous merchant family in Asbury, New Jersey, on March 20, 1783. As a young man he journeyed west. A cousin, John Wesley Hunt, was a successful merchant in Lexington, Kentucky, but Wilson Price Hunt’s quest for opportunity and adventure drew him on a farther journey. In 1804 he opened a general mercantile ...
Wilson Price Hunt. 1782-1842. American explorer of the trans-Mississippi West. In 1810-12 Hunt lead a party called the Astorians—named after their sponsor, John Jacob Astor—up the Missouri River and across the continent in an effort to establish a fur trading station at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Wilson Price Hunt led the overland trip of the Astorians on the way to Oregon in 1812-3. This journal covers the trip from the Arikara villages on the Missourri to Astoria.
Oct 1, 2005 · Soon after forming the Pacific Fur Company, New Yorker Wilson Price Hunt developed a plan to begin fur trade exploitation in the Pacific Northwest. He organized two ventures: one involved an ocean expedition of the Tonquin, which would sail around the tip of South America to Astoria, Oregon.
Astor had chosen partner Wilson Price Hunt, who had no experience in wilderness travel, to lead the overland group because of his business expertise. Also accompanying them were Pierre Dorion Jr., his Iowa Indian wife Marie, and their two young sons.
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