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Ye Galleon Press, 1969. First THUS. Hardbound. Very Good/Missing. Facsimile edition of the 1857 edition (described as "Howes A318"). #87 of edition of 504 copies. No dust jacket. Pale blue linen boards with faded gilt lettering on spine and front. Some light soiling to spine, board edges, edges of text block. Pages are clean and firmly bound. FFEP and RFEP are bright and fresh.
OREGON: COMPRISING A BRIEF HISTORY AND FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE TERRITORIES OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON... by Armstrong, A. N - 1857
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Chicago, 1857. First edition. 147pp. Original gold stamped small octavo cloth, spine shows some light wear, corners a trifle bumped Chicago Pre-Fire Imprints 229. Byrd 2566. Howes A318. Graff 87: "The author was a government surveyor for three years in Oregon." Contains material on the Willamette Valley, coast mountains, Puget Sound, Vancouver Island, eastern and middle Oregon, Indian tribes, and the Indian war. Wagner-Camp Becker 283A: "...Armstrong concludes the work with brief vocabularies of Chinook Jargon and the Nootka dialect." Reese best of the west 250: 142
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Chicag: Chas. Scott & Co, 1857. 147pp. Publisher's olive green blindstamped cloth, spine and front board gilt. Moderate wear, rubbing, and some soiling to binding, corners bumped and worn. A few corners dogeared. Foxing, tanning, and light soiling throughout. Ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Good. Armstrong served for three years as a government surveyor in the Pacific Northwest. His extensive travels form the basis for his minute descriptions of the geography, Indian life, and prospects for the territory. Virtually all of his travels were on the west side of the Cascades in Oregon, especially the Willamette Valley. His account of the country proceeds topographically, moving from settlement to settlement in his narrative, with anecdotes of his travels. He also describes the Indian tribes of the coast in the second half of the book, evidently based on his experience as an "active participant" in the Indian wars in Oregon. "One chapter only is given to Eastern Chinook Jargon and…
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