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Page 382 - of interest. (Presented by Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, Oregon City.) General Circular, A, to all Persons of Good Moral Character, who wish to Emigrate to the Oregon Territory, embracing some account of the character and advantages of the country; the Right and the Means
Page 253 - and the Great Spirit will help us both. You are now free to cut and use all the wood you may wish. You can make all your improvements, and live on any part of our land not actually occupied by us. Because one
Page 60 - with special index, 904 pp. Public Buildings under the Control of the Treasury Department, (Exclusive of Marine Hospitals and Quarantine Stations), History of. December 24, 1900. Illus. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. Boyal 8vo, 648 pp. Library of Congress, Division of Manuscripts. A Calendar of
Page 123 - the Treasury of the united States, to defray the expenses of the Legislative Assembly, the printing of the laws, and other incidental expenses.
Page 69 - H. Hewitt. Maps and Illustrations. Broadway Publishing Co., New York. 12mo, Cloth, 534 pp. (Presented by the Author.) Flora of Northwest America: Containing Brief Descriptions of all Known Indigenous and Naturalized Plants growing without Cultivation North of California, West of Utah, and South of British Columbia. By Thomas Howell. Vol. I. Phanerogamae. Portland, Oregon: August 10, 1903. 8vo, Cloth, 818 pp.
Page 382 - Kelley, Agent. By order of the American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of the Oregon Territory. Instituted in Boston, AD 1820. Charlestown: Printed by William W. Wheildon. RP &
Page 67 - 8vo, Cloth, 128 pp. Executive Journal of Iowa—1838-1841,—Governor Robert Lucas. Edited by Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science in the State University of Iowa. Published by the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, 1906. 8vo, Cloth, 344 pp. Governors of Iowa, Messages and Proclamations of. Compiled and edited by Benjamin F. Shambaugh. Vol.
Page 263 - Mandans, Minnatarees, Assiniboins, and other Indians, who either reside or range on the territory east, north, and west of that point. A post at, or near, the head of navigation on the Missouri, would control the Blackfoot Indians, protect our traders, enable us to remove those of the British companies from our territory, and
Page 389 - of Oregon, Collated and prepared by the State Board of Agriculture by Direction of the Legislative Assembly, 1888. Quarto. 100 pp. Third Revised Edition. 1898. 203 pp. Oregon: Facts Regarding its Climate, Soil, Mineral and Agricultural Resources, Means of Communication, Commerce
Page 41 - the Treaties of Utrecht and of Paris, in 1763. "When we » know that all the formalities deemed necessary in the possession of a newly discovered country have been complied with on the part of the United States; that, in the year 1785-6, an establishment was made at the mouth of the Columbia river, by Mr. Hendricks,