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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.
- Title
- 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. By Robert Greenhow, translator and librarian to the Department of State...
- Author
- Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854.
- Publication
- Washington, Blair and Rives, printers, 1840.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | HV (Greenhow, R. Memoir, historical and political, on the Northwest Coast. Washington, 1840) | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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- Description
- xi, [1], 228 p. fold. map.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- [U.S.] 26th Cong., 1st sess. Senate ; [Doc.] 174
- Subject
- Note
- Chronologically arranged, 1493-1839.
- Found in the Congressional series of U. S. public documents, serial no. 357; and issued also without document serial number ("bureau edition")
- "February 10, 1840. Submitted by Mr. Linn, from the Select Committee on the Oregon Territory; and ordered to be printed, and that 2,500 additional copies be sent to the Senate."
- "Written by direction of the Honorable John Forsyth, Secretary of State of the United States."
- 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.
- Call Number
- HV (Greenhow, R. Memoir, historical and political, on the Northwest Coast. Washington, 1840)
- LCCN
- 02024580 //rev
- OCLC
- 19110523
- Author
- Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854.
- Title
- 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. By Robert Greenhow, translator and librarian to the Department of State...
- Imprint
- Washington, Blair and Rives, printers, 1840.
- Series
- [U.S.] 26th Cong., 1st sess. Senate ; [Doc.] 174
- Added Author
- United States. Department of State.United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Oregon Territory.
- Research Call Number
- HV (Greenhow, R. Memoir, historical and political, on the Northwest Coast. Washington, 1840)