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Parker's Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, with a Map of the Oregon Territory
by Parker, Rev. Samuel , A.M
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- Hardcover
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Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1967 Hard cover, 8vo, in brown cloth with titles blocked to spine in brown, xii plus 379 pp. Folded map laid in. An un-numbered Limited Edition facsimile of the original publication of 1838. In original, price-clipped dust jacket and protective mylar. Condition: Fine. D/J is Very Good Plus with sunning to spine. **The Massachusetts-born Author, Rev. Samuel A.M. Parker (1779-1866) was the first Presbyterian missionary in the Northwest. He trained at the Andover Theological Seminary, the training ground of a number of notable Christian missionaries despatched in the nineteenth century from Massachusetts to places such as China, India and other far-flung locales. The volume describes his travels begun in 1835 under Fontenelle of the American Fur Company. His observations are described as a valuable resource on the tribes he encounters, the descriptions of the land, its agriculture, animal life and geology. The map shows the earliest representation of interior Oregon. (The original 1838 title is listed in Shaw and Shoemaker, 52134.) . Limited Edition of 2000. Hard Cover. Fine /Very Good Plus .
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- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Title
- Parker's Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, with a Map of the Oregon Territory
- Author
- Parker, Rev. Samuel , A.M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- Limited Edition of 2000
- Publisher
- Ross and Haines
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- Date Published
- 1967
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