Oregon

Life on the Plains of the Pacific. Oregon: its history, condition and prospects: containing a description of the geography, climate and productions with personal adventures among the Indians during a residence of the author on the plains bordering the Pacific while connected with the Oregon mission: embracing extended notes of a voyage round the world. There is no deficiency of material in the possession of the author, to enable him to furnish a most interesting and instructive work. The author has knowledge resulting from observation, and necessary to qualify one to instruct and entertain mankind, during seven years of journeyings in various parts of the world, both by sea and land, have been perhaps greater than usually falls to the lot of even authors of books of travel, yet, conscious of his want of the requisite qualifications to array his work in that fascinating drapery necessary to charm the reader at once into an unqualified approval, the author casts himself upon the public with all due deference.