# A History of the Pacific Northwest

A revised edition of the 1905 work. First comprehensive work of history about the Pacific Northwest by a professionally trained academic historian. Note, Elwood Evans published an earlier book under a similar title.
A HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
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A History of
the Pacific Northwest
BY
JOSEPH SCHAFER, Ph.D.
Head of the Department of History, University of Oregon; Sometime Fellow in History, University of Wisconsin; Joint Anthor of Strong and Schafer's "Government of the American People"; Author of "The Origin of the System of Land Grants in Aid of Education," "The Pacific Slope and Alaska," etc.
REVISED AND REWRITTEN WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1930
Copyright, 1905 and 1918,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1905. New edition, revised and rewritten. Published January, 1918.
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To
FREDERIC G. YOUNG, A.B.
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
WHOSE WORK AS SECRETARY OF THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FROM THE TIME OF ITS FOUNDATION HAS SIMPLIFIED THE TASK OF EVERY INVESTIGATOR IN THE FIELD OF NORTHWESTERN HISTORY
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
The new material accumulated during the past twelve years since the original publication of the History of the Pacific Northwest has rendered necessary not a mere revision of that work but on many essential points a complete rewriting of it. This is notably true of the chapters dealing with the history of the Oregon boundary negotiation between the United States and Great Britain. It is true also of parts of the balance of the early part of the work. Moreover, since the movement in this comparatively new region is very rapid and a single decade sometimes revolutionizes conditions, it was felt to be necessary to add special chapters on the Progress of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, and Social and Political Change. With this additional matter it would seem as if the story of the Pacific Northwest were in this book brought down to the actual present.
The author is under great obligations to the management of the Record Office at London, England, for permission to use files of papers relating to the Oregon Question; to the late Ambassador Whitelaw Reid for his courtesy in securing for him access to all available materials in London; and to Lord Stanmore for permission to examine and use papers of ​Lord Aberdeen. He is also under obligations to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C, for assistance in unearthing important manuscripts contained in the archives at Washington.
Joseph Schafer.
University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon, October 23, 1917.
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