| | Book | Save | | 2 | 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
| | | | Creator: | Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854 | | | | | United States Dept. of State. | | | | | United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Oregon Territory. | | | | Publication: | Blair and Rives, printers, Washington,1840. | | | | Notes: | 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. Published also with document series note: 26th Congress. 1st session. <Senate> <174>. 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 #: | F66D G813M | | | | Extent: | xi, [1], 228 p. fold. map. 23.5 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Nâuänez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, -- 16th cent | Lewis and Clark Expedition | Louisiana Purchase | Oregon -- History -- Sources | Northwest Coast of North America | America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish | Southwest, New
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