| Author | Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854.
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| 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. By Robert Greenhow, translator and librarian to the Department of state...
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| Published | Washington, Blair and Rives, printers, 1840.
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| Description | xi, [1], 228 p. fold. map. 23.5 cm.
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| General Note | 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.
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| Subjects | America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Louisiana Purchase.
Northwest Coast of North America.
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent.
Oregon -- History -- Sources.
Southwest, New.
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| Organizations | United States. Dept. of State.
United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Oregon Territory.
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| LC Card Number | 00-369 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 66 D G813M
mq82371: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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