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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

Robert Greenhow (Author), David H. Burr (Cartographer)
"The Memoir relates principally to the southern and middle portions of the northwest coast of this continent and the adjoining territories, which have for many years formed the subjects of discussions between the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, and Russia; and it is designed to show the origin, nature, and extent of the several claims, in order to afford the means of correctly estimating the justice of each"--Page iv
Print Book, English, 1840
Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1840
Trans-Atlantic imprints (Publishing)
xi, 228 pages : folded map ; 24 cm
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Folded map is entitled The North-West-Coast of North America and adjacent territories. Described as being "compiled from the best authorities under the direction of Robert Greenhow to accompany his memoir on the Northwest Coast published by order of the Sentate of the United States drawn by David H. Burr."
Notes on the Louisiana purchase and the Southwest are included, with brief accounts of overland journeys, notably those of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (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