http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0320877
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alternative: History of Oregon and California
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854
issued: 2016-11-02
issued: 1844
description: "Expanded from his Memoir, historical and political (no.235)." -- 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. 119.
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extent: xviii, 471 pages : map (folded) ; 23 cm
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note: mBm jSsMwMiP SilmraPt § HISTORY OREGON AND CALIFORNIA, OTHER TERRITORIES NORTH-WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA; GEOGRAPHICAL VIEW AND MAP OF THOSE COUNTRIES, PROOFS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HISTORY. ROBERT GREENHOW, 0F A 7™™^^ 9HRpR5 ZItzZV™™™*™™*1"' "THE POSSIBLE DESTINY OP THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, AS A NATION OP OP SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON, IS AN AUGUST C°^i£MD^£,5 TABm TALK BOSTON: CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN. 1844. 2SH3M HISTOET OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. MAJOR-GENERAL MORGAN LEWIS, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED, ROBERT GREENHOW. PREFACE. The following pages are devoted, principally, to the description and history of the portion of North America bor^ dering on the Pacific Ocean, between the 40th and the 54th parallels of latitude, which is traversed and in a great measure drained, by the River Columbia, and to which the name of OREGON is now usually applied. It has, however, been found necessary, for the objects of the work, to bestow almost equal attention on the regions embraced under the I general appellation of California, extending southward from the Columbia countries, to the arm of the Pacific, called the Californian Gulf; and also to take into consideration the coasts and islands north and north-west of those countries, as far as the Artie Sea. The vast division of America, comprehending these territories, remains, with the exception of a few isolated spots | on the coasts and on the margins of the larger streams, uncultivated and inhabited only by tribes of wandering savages. Its shores and some of the rivers have been examined with care, and their course may be found delineated with considerable minuteness on maps. Of the interior regions, I some have never been explored, and are indeed apparently impenetrable by man | others, which offer fewer obstacles to the traveller, are only known through the vague and imperfect accounts of traders or missionaries; and in those which have been the most frequented by civilized persons, much remains to be effected by th…
note: Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1949302
has type: Books
identifier: F880 .G8 1844a
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0320877
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Boston : Charles C. Little and James Brown
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. F880 .G8 1844a
subject: Northwest Coast of North America
subject: Oregon question
subject: California--History
title: The history of Oregon and California, and the other territories on the north-west coast of North America; accompanied by a geographical view and map of those countries, and a number of documents as proofs and illustrations of the history
type: Text