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Early Western Travels
1748-1846
Volume XXVIII
Early Western Travels
1748-1846
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the bestand rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptiveof the Aborigines and Social andEconomic Conditions in the Middleand Far West, during the Periodof Early American Settlement
Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by
Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.
Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "OriginalJournals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin'sNew Discovery," etc.
Volume XXVIII
Part I of Farnham's Travels in the Great WesternPrairies, etc., May 21-October 16, 1839
Cleveland, Ohio
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1906
Copyright 1906, by
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO
CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVIII
| Preface to Volumes XXVIII and XXIX. The Editor | 9 |
| Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Country. [Part I, being Volume I and chapters i-iv of Volume II of the London edition, 1843.] Thomas Jefferson Farnham. | |
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| Preface by the First Editor | 25 |
| Author's Preface | 27 |
| Author's Introduction | 29 |
| Author's Table of Contents | 41 |
| Text of Part I | 45 |
ILLUSTRATION TO VOLUME XXVIII
| Facsimile of title-page to Farnham's Travels, Vol. I | 23 |
PREFACE TO VOLUMES XXVIII-XXIX
With these two volumes our series returns to Oregon, andto the question already shadowed forth upon the horizon,whether this vast territory drained by the Columbia River