| Summary: | In 1842-43, farmers in areas on the border of the unsettled west were seized with "Oregon fever" and began to emigrate to to the fertile regions of the Oregon territory, at that time jointly occupied by a few British and American settlers and fur traders. In June 1846, the lands south of the 49th degree of north latitude now comprising the states of Washington, Oregon, and parts of Idaho and Montana were formally recognized by Great Britain as part of the United States, but three or four years before the treaty American emigrants were convinced that the United States would take over the territory and they were eager to stake their claims early. One of the most articulate emigrants was the author whose account of that journey was published into this book.
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| Item Description: | Original t.p. reads: Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains, to the mouth of the Columbia River ... 1845 and 1846; containing ... descriptions of the valleys of the Willamette, Umpqua, and Clamet; a general description of Oregon Territory ... a list of necessary outfits for emigrants; and a table of distances from camp to camp on the route. Also, a letter from the Rev. H.H. Spalding, resident missionary, for the last ten years, among the Nez Percé Tribe of Indians, on the Koos-koos-kee River; the organic laws of Oregon Territory; tables of about 300 words of the Chinook jargon ... &c. By Joel Palmer. Cincinnati, J.A. & U.P. James ... 1847. |
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