Russia's farthest outpost — a fortified farm on the Sonoma coast, built to feed Alaska.
Sold to John Sutter in 1841 when the otters were gone and the wheat failed.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Fort Ross (Russia) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1812 · 1824.
The foundational archaeological-ethnohistorical study of the colony, especially the multiethnic Native Alaskan and Kashaya Pomo communities living around the fort.
Compares the Russian mercantile colony at Ross with the Spanish missions, drawing directly on the Fort Ross excavations and Kashaya Pomo experience.
A two-volume scholarly collection of translated primary documents on Colony Ross, including land dealings, trade, and relations with Native peoples and the Spanish/Mexicans.
Explains how Russia governed and supplied its lone overseas colony in Alaska, the provisioning problem that Fort Ross's California farms were built to solve.