Sturgis, William:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE OREGON QUESTION. SUBSTANCE OF A LECTURE BEFORE THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, DELIVERED JANUARY 22, 1845. "Authoritative review of British and American claims written by one who as a youth had made several trading voyages to the Northwest coast" - Howes. "Interesting work, giving considerable geographical history of the disputed territory" - Cowan. The map shows the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast. This important American view, issued as the controversy with Britain over the Oregon Country was reaching a head, proposes the compromise of the forty-ninth latitude.

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