PAMPHLET
Title:
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
Creators:
Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854 | United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Oregon Territory. | United States Dept. of State. | United States Congress Senate.(26th, 1st session : 1839-1840).
Publication:
Blair and Rives, printers, Washington, 1840.
Notes:
February 10, 1840. Submitted by Mr. Linn, from the Select committee on the Oregon territory; and ordered to be printed, and the 2,500 additional copies to be sent to the Senate. Written by direction of the Honorable John Forsyth, secretary of state of the United States, and published by order of the Senate, on motion of the Honorable L. F. Linn, chairman of the Select committee on the Oregon territory. Chronologically arranged, 1493-1839. Found in the Congressional series of U.S. public documents, serial no.357; and issued also without document serial number ("bureau editon") Notes on the Louisiana purchase and the Southwwest are included, with brief accounts of overland journeys, notably those of Alvar Nunez Cabeza deVaca (whose wanderings for eight years, 1528-1536, brought him to Cullacan, near the Gulf of California) and the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806.
Call #:
Pam. v.342, no.1
Extent:
xi, 228 p. : fold. map ; octavo.
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