The Canoe and the Saddle, Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests and Isthmiana.

£75 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A classic narrative of life in the early days of Oregon and Washington with important notes on the Native Americans he met and travelled with. Includes a partial vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon, a Pacific Northwest trade language. This copy belonged to Chicago businessman and bibliophile John Thomas Lee, and has his attractive bookplate to the front pastedown, featuring a Native American after the drawings by John White, and a map of of the Atlantic coast. Howes, W584.

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