Excursion To The Oregon / Chambers's Miscellany Of Useful And Entertaining Tracts No. 45

Townsend, J.K.

Published by W.& R. Chambers; Edinburgh; 32 pp.; Wraps; F-; nc/nd (ca. 1840s)

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_____An uncommon little British pamphlet abridgement reprinting part of Townsend's Excursion to the Rocky Mountains (1839)._____ Includes encounters with the Kansas Indians, Milton Sublette, buffalo hunting, grizzlies, a trappers' rendezvous on the Green River._____of Colorado, Blackfeet & Snake adventures, concludes with a description of the Oregon Territory._____ . _____ "Townsend traveled with Thomas Nuttall and Jason Lee in Nathaniel Wyeth's second expedition to Oregon in 1834 the party left Independence on April 28, 1834, and was joined by Sir William Drummond Stewart at the rendezvous on the Green River . continued on to Fort Vancouver, which they reached on September 16." --Wagner-Camp 79.2 (note). _____ WorldCat (07/21) shows just two holdings for this original independent issue._____ Both those suggest a date of "1874" which we believe is a transposition of the more likely 1847. _____.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Excursion To The Oregon / Chambers's Miscellany Of Useful And Entertaining Tracts No. 45
• Publisher: W.& R. Chambers; Edinburgh; 32 pp.; Wraps; F-; nc/nd (ca. 1840s)
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
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