Beschreibung:

Title: The History of Oregon, Geographical and Political. Embracing an Analysis of the Old Spanish Claim, the British Pretensions, the United States Title; An Account of the Present Condition and Character of the Country, and a Thorough Examination of the Project of a National Rail Road, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. To Which is added a Journal of the Events of the Celebrated Emigrating Expedition of 1843; Containing an Account of the Route from Missouri to Astoria, a Table of Distances, and the Physical and Political Description of the Territory, and its Settlements, by a Member of the Recently Organized Oregon Legislature Author: Wilkes, George Place New York Publisher: William H. Colyer Date: 1845 Description: 127, [1] pp. Folding woodcut map. 8½x5½, modern quarter calf & cloth, morocco spine label. First Edition. Scarce work written at the time of the Oregon boundary controversy, setting forth the rights of the United States to this territory, describes the route from Missouri to Astoria, and descrbes Oregon itself. It also includes the journal kept by Peter Burnett, who later became the first civil governor of California. Streeter notes that "this and the Overton Johnson narrative published a year later, in 1846, are the only known contemporaneous accounts of the 1843 emigration published within a few years of the event." Graff 4657; Hill p.326; Howes W418; Mintz 497; Sabin 103997; Smith 11005; Streeter 2143; Wagner-Camp 119:1; Wheat Transmississippi 501. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine condition, the map particularly so. Item number: 190968