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BOOKS RELATING TO THE NORTHWEST
THE JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK
GASS’S JOURNAL OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
THE CONQUEST
THE BRIDGE OF THE GODS
McLOUGHLIN AND OLD OREGON
LETTERS FROM AN OREGON RANCH
FROM THE WEST TO THE WEST
A SHORT HISTORY OF OREGON
The Journals of Captains Lewis and Clark, 1804–5–6 (McClurg Library Reprints of Americana)
- Reprinted from the Edition of 1814. With an Introduction by James K. Hosmer, Ll. D., an analytical Index, and photogravure portraits and maps. In two volumes, boxed, 1,083 pages, gilt top. $5.00 net. Large-paper edition, on Brown’s hand-made paper, illustrations on Japan vellum, limited to 150 copies, boxed. $18.00 net.
“The republication of the complete narrative is both timely and invaluable.…. Dr. Hosmer is well known as an authority on Western history; hence to see his name on the title-page is to know that the work has been well done.”—Portland Oregonian.
“The celebrated story of the expedition of Lewis and Clark has now been put in an easily accessible form.”—N. Y. Times Saturday Review.
“Of the several new editions of this valuable narrative, this is by far the best and most complete.”—Minneapolis Journal.
“We have nothing but praise for this clear and handsome reprint.”—The Nation.
Gass’s Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (McClurg Library Reprints of Americana)
- Reprinted from the Edition of 1811. With an Introduction by Dr. James K. Hosmer, an analytical Index, facsimiles of the original illustrations, and a rare portrait of Patrick Gass. In one square octavo volume, boxed, 350 pages, gilt top. $3.50 net. Large-paper edition, on Brown’s hand-made paper, illustrations on Japan paper, limited to 75 copies, boxed. $9.00 net.
The appearance of this volume in the period of Lewis and Clark celebrations is especially pertinent, as no practical library edition has been available of the “Journal of Patrick Gass.” His narrative was for seven years the only source from which any authentic knowledge of the great enterprise could be obtained. When at last the work based on the diaries of the Captains was given to the world, the earlier book, so far from being set aside, was found to be most important as confirming and supplementing what had been set down by the leaders, and, in fact, has not ceased to be held in high estimation up to the present moment.
“Several picturesque details Dr. Hosmer mentions (in the ‘Introduction’) which had eluded the argus eyes of Cotes through a lifetime of waiting and watching. Whatever he learns he sets forth with a vivacity which keeps our attention expectant and appetite growing by what it feeds on.”—New York Evening Post.
“It restores Gass’s Journal to a common use. The portrait of Gass, which serves as a frontispiece, is a distinct addition.”—American Historical Review.
“No edition of Lewis and Clark is complete unless accompanied by the Journal of Patrick Gass. The work has been well edited, and the mechanics are of a superior character.”—Baltimore Sun.
- By Eva Emery Dye. Being the True Story of Lewis and Clark. Third Edition, with frontispiece in full color by Charlotte Weber. 12mo, gilt top, 504 pages. $1.50.
No book published in recent years has more of tremendous import between its covers, and certainly no recent novel has in it more of the elements of a permanent success. A historical romance which tells with accuracy and inspiring style of the bravery of the pioneers in winning the western continent, should have a lasting place in the esteem of every American.
“No one who wishes to know the true story of the conquest of the greater part of this great nation can afford to pass by this book.”—Cleveland Leader.
“A vivid picture of the Indian wars preceding the Louisiana purchase, of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, and of events following the occupation of Oregon.”—The Congregationalist.
“It may not be the great American novel we have been waiting for so long, but it certainly looks as though it would be very near it.”—Rochester Times.
“The characters that are assembled in ‘The Conquest’ belong to the history of the United States; their story is a national epic.”—Detroit Free Press.
- By Eva Emery Dye. A Chronicle. Fifth Edition. 12mo, 381 pages. $1.50.
This is a most graphic and interesting chronicle of the movement which added to the United States that vast territory, previously a British possession, of which Oregon formed a part, and how Dr. John McLoughlin, then chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company for the Northwest, by his fatherly interest in the settlers, displeased the Hudson’s Bay Company and aided in bringing this about. The author has gathered her facts at first hand, and as a result the work is vivid and picturesque and reads like a romance.
“A spirited narrative of what life in the wilderness meant in the early days, a record of heroism, self-sacrifice, and dogged persistence; a graphic page of the story of the American pioneer.”—New York Mail.
- By F. H. Balch. A Romance of Indian Oregon. New (seventh) Edition, enlarged size. With eight full-page illustrations by Laurens Maynard Dixon. Cloth, 12mo, 280 pages, gilt top. $1.50. Paper edition, with out illustrations. 50 cents.
Encouraged by the steady demand for this powerful story, since its publication twelve years ago, the publishers felt justified in issuing this attractive illustrated edition. The book has fairly earned its lasting popularity, not only by the intense interest of the story, but by its faithful delineation of Indian character. From the legends of the Columbia River and the mystical “bridge of the gods,” the author has derived a truthful and realistic picture of the powerful tribes that inhabited the Oregon country two centuries ago.
The Syracuse Herald calls the author of “The Bridge of the Gods” “the best writer of Indian romance since the days of Fenimore Cooper.”
- By Sidona V. Johnson. With seventeen illustrations from photographs, and a map of the Lewis and Clark route. 16mo, 320 pages, indexed. $1.00 net.
From Henry E. Dosch, Director of Exhibits at Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland.
“Every home in Oregon might well welcome this condensed, readable ‘History of Oregon,’ and, most important of all, the school children of the State are entitled to an opportunity to study it, to the end that the history of the State and the great and memorable achievement of Lewis and Clark may be intelligently understood and appreciated by every man, woman, and child in Oregon before the opening of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.”
Letters from an Oregon Ranch
- By “Katharine.” With twelve full-page illustrations from photographs. Square 8vo. $1.25 net.
The hours of delight, as well as those of trial, which fall to the lot of “Katharine,” in creating a home out of the raw materials of nature, are chronicled with naïve humor, and in a vein of hearty optimism which will make a universal appeal. This year the eyes of the entire country are on Oregon, and it is expected that a book of this kind, giving such an illuminating idea of the country, will be of great interest. The photographs which illustrate the volume are of remarkable beauty.
From the West to the West
Across the Plains to Oregon
- By Abigail Scott Duniway. With frontispiece in color. 12mo. $1.50.
A chronicle and remarkable picture of a group of pioneers in their journeyings across the plains and their subsequent settling in Oregon. The characters are of the distinctive class of Western emigrant of fifty years ago, resourceful, independent, and progressive, and in their conversation and experiences give a vivid account of a phase of American social life that has passed, as well as foreshadowing the active and productive period that was to follow. Though a faithful account of an actual journey, the book is in the form of fiction, and brings the course of several romances to a successful end.
These books are for sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by the publishers on receipt of price. An extra for postage will be made on “net” books.