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Chicago, 1856.. 20pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine stamped in brown and gilt. Text trimmed close at fore-edge, costing portions of words throughout. Good. A rare and important polemic "written in bitter hostility to the Hudson's Bay Company, and exposing their operations on the Pacific Coast and among the Indian tribes and fur traders from the earliest times" (Eberstadt). Scripps is perhaps best known as the author of one of Lincoln's earliest biographies, penned for the 1860 presidential campaign. A journalist in Chicago, he was the founder and chief editor of the CHICAGO DEMOCRATIC PRESS until it was purchased by the CHICAGO TRIBUNE in 1858, after which he served as chief editor of the latter for a number of years. In amongst his numerous criticisms of the Hudson's Bay Company, the author also includes a discussion of the depopulation of indigenous tribes through war and illness, and laments the lack of success by Christian missionaries in the region. "Scripps, author of an…
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THE UNDEVELOPED NORTHERN PORTION OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. A LECTURE DELIVERED IN THE COURSE BEFORE BELL'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE FEBRUARY, 1856.
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Chicago: Steam Printing House, 1856. First edition. 20pp. in double columns.. dbd. American Imprints Inventory Chicago, 221. Graff 3717. Howes S248(aa). Sabin 78485. Streeter Sale 3721: "Scripps, who was editor and publisher of the 'Democratic Press,' had visited the Lake Superior country in 1856. He discusses here primarily the area of western Canada from Lake Superior to the Pacific, with comments on the Minnesota region south of the international boundary. He has a good deal to say about the fur trade and the Hudson's Bay Company. There can be little doubt but that the sole reason why the company maintains its posts in Oregon and Washington is to induce Brother Jonathan to 'shell out' liberally for them." Peel 331. Chicago Pre-Fire i9mprints 221. Graff 3717
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