History of Oregon Territory. It Being a Demonstration of the Title of these United States of North America to the Same.

New York: William Taylor, No. 2 Astor House, [1845].

Price: $400.00


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Second edition. With folding map. 83 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. Howes F-48. "Vehement presentation of the superiority of America's claims to Oregon over those of England." (Howes).

Item #212818

Published the year after the first edition, Farnham states: "we own Oregon by purchase from Spain, the sole discoverer and first occupant of its Coast; by purchase from France, to whom England ... relinquished her claim to it; and by our own discovery and prior occupancy of Columbia River"