The Claims to the Oregon Territory Considered.

The Claims to the Oregon Territory Considered.

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44 pp. Sewn binding, printed self wrappers. An account by the recorder of Rupert's Land - a territory in British North America which comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin - of the United States' claim to the Oregon Territory, published "to shew, from materials furnished by the Americans themselves, [Greenhow's 'Memoir'] that the claim of Great Britain to the Oregon territory is superior to theirs." Includes a chronology of pertinent 'discoveries' by various European settlers from 1543-1812.