How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781417965328
Subjects: Historical fiction; Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Historical - General
First sentence: Among the efforts at description which will associate themselves with either our ignorance or our intelligence as to our own country, the following words by our greatest orator, will always have their place: What do we want with the vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs?