Early days in Old Oregon
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alternative: Early days in Old Oregon. With numerous illustrations and four maps
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Judson, Katharine Berry
issued: 2016-01-27
issued: 1916
description: "Bibliography [with useful annotations]: PP.253-260. ' ... a clear, straightforward account of the romantic discovery and settlement of Old Oregon, especially intended for children':Pref. by the Sub-Librarian of History in the New York State Library. 2d. ed. Chicago, 1919; 3d. ed. Portland, Or., Metropolitan Press, 1935; 4th.ed. Portland, Or., Metropolitan Press, 1936; 5th.ed. Portland, Or., Binfords & Mort [1944]" -- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 150.
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extent: 263 pages : photographs, illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
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note: I Early Days in w Old Ore %%S* By KATHARINE BERRY JUDSON, M.A. Author of "Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest,' "Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes," "Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest," etc. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND FOUR MAPS CHICAGO A. C McCLURG & CO. 1916 v **. i^^M^ZiteHiQ*™^ IJrtfare f~\UD OREGON was a mighty sweep of country, and a most romantic one. From the northern border of Mexican California to near Sitka in Russian America it stretched, nearly eight hundred miles. Eastward it stretched over a country of mighty mountain ranges from which at regular intervals rose the snow peaks, ever glistening white, over a country of dense forests, of mighty rivers and foaming mountain torrents, over a country of sand and sagebrush, and on still eastward over the "cut-rock desert where "men had songs for supper" and where no game could live, on and on eastward nearly a thousand miles until the limits of the Oregon country, at the crest of the main range of the Rockies, met the old-time, unknown Louisiana. The romance ever lingers. Still, as one stands on the green prairie at Fort Vancouver, for so many years the center of civilization on the lonely coast of Oregon, one hears echoes of the Brigade of Boats coming down the Columbia ; still one hears the gay voices of the voyageurs singing in time to the dip of the paddle. Romance still lingers in vague tales of the blue-coated, brass-buttoned Hudson's Bay Company men who followed the forest trails. Romance still lingers at old Fort Astoria, where a replica of PREFACE the famous old fort—a tiny thing for a protection in the wilderness—has been built in memory of the old days of a century ago. "When my grandfather came across the plains" — even now one hears that remark; and romance brings to sight the long line of white-winged prairie schooners winding their slow way over the endless green waves of the prairies, then over the long level of the plains, and the c…
note: Includes index. Other Copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3697453
has type: Books
identifier: F880 .J93
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0223813
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Chicago : A. C. McClurg & Co.
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. F880 .J93
subject: Oregon Territory--History
type: Text