Memoir, historical and political, on the northwest coast of North America, and the adjacent territories :
illustrated by a map and a geographical view of those countries.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Washington, Blair and Rives, printers, 1840.
- Note
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References: Howes, U.S.IANA, no. G.389.
References: Eberstadt no. III-1513.
Notes on the Louisiana Purchase and the Southwest are included, with brief accounts of overland journeys, notably those of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (whose wanderings for eight years, 1528-1536, brought him to Culiacan, near the Gulf of California) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806.
Found in the Congressional series of U.S. public documents, serial no. 357; and issued also without document serial number ("bureau edition")
Chronologically arranged, 1493-1839.
"Written by direction of the Honorable John Forsyth, secretary of state of the United States."
February 10, 1840. Submitted by Mr. Linn, from the Select Committee on the Oregon Territory; and ordered to be printed, and that 2,500 additional copies be sent to the Senate.
- Physical Description
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xi, [1], 228 p.
fold. map.
25 cm.
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