Check-list of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the History of the Pacific Northwest to be Found in Representative Libraries of that Region: Prepared Co-operatively |
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Page 109 - MARCY'S ARMY LIFE ON THE BORDER. Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border. Comprising Descriptions of the Indian Nomads of the Plains; Explorations of New Territory ; a Trip across the Rocky Mountains in the Winter ; Descriptions of the Habits of Different Animals found in the West, and the Methods of Hunting them; with Incidents in the Life of Different Frontier Men, &c., &c. By Brevet Brigadier-General RB MARCY, USA, Author of
Page 57 - IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON. For the County of AB, (or AB and CD) Contestants, vs.
Page 20 - Journal of a Voyage in 1775 to Explore the Coast of America, Northward of California...
Page 172 - Oregon and California in 1848 : With an Appendix, including recent and authentic Information on the Subject of the Gold Mines of California, and other valuable Matter of Interest to the Emigrant, &c.
Page 21 - Voyages of Discovery and Research within the Arctic Regions, from 1818 to the present time. Under the Command of the several Naval Officers, employed by Sea and Land, in search of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: with Two Attempts to reach the North Pole.
Page 190 - John B., Oregon; or a short history of a long journey from, the Atlantic Ocean to the region of the Pacific by land; drawn up from the notes and oral information of John B. Wyeth, one of the party who left Mr. Nathaniel J. Wyeth, July 28th, 1832, four days...
Page 34 - Alaska, embracing the penal code, tbe code of criminal procedure, the political code, the code of civil procedure, and the civil code, with the treaty of cession, and all acts and parts of acts relating to the district. Annotated with references to decisions by the courts of the United States and the Supreme Court of Oregon, by TH Carter.
Page 105 - AN AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL RAILWAY •**• GUIDE. Giving the Geological Formation along the Railroads, with Altitude above Tide-water, Notes on Interesting Places on the Routes, and a Description of each of the Formations. By JAMES MACFARLANE, Ph.
Page 33 - A Voyage round the World, from 1806 to 1812, in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands were visited ; including a Narrative of the Author's Shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent Wreck in the Ship's long Boat; with an Account of the present State of the Sandwich Islands, and a Vocabulary of their Language.
Page 50 - A letter from a Russian sea-officer to a person of distinction at the court of St. Petersburgh, containing his remarks upon Mr. de l'Isles's chart and memoir relative to the new discoveries northward and eastward from Kamtschatka, together with some observations on that letter by Arthur Dobbs, Esq., Governor of North Carolina. To which is added Mr. de l...