The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California: Containing Scenes and Incidents of a Party of Oregon Emigrants: A Description of Oregon: Scenes and ... of California, with a Description Of...

ISBN: 1275669719

Author: Hastings, Lansford Warren

Condition: New

Title: The emigrants' guide to Oregon and California : containing scenes and incidents of a party of Oregon emigrants : a description of Oregon : scenes and incidents of a party of California emigrants, and a description of California, with a description of the different routes to those countries, and all necessary information relative to the equipment, supplies, and the method of traveling.

Author: Lansford Warren Hastings

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP01425200

CollectionID: CTRG94-B5384

PublicationDate: 18450101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: Published in 1847 and 1849 with title: A new history of Oregon and California. Also published in 1849 and subsequently with title: A new description of Oregon and California.

Collation: 152 p. ; 22 cm