Memoir, historical and political, on the northwest coast of North America, and the adjacent territories
Subtitle: illustrated by a map and a geographical view of those countries.
By: By Robert Greenhow, translator and librarian to the Department of state...
Contributors: United States. Dept. of State.; United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Oregon Territory.
Publisher: Blair and Rives, printers
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, -- 16th cent.; Louisiana Purchase.; Oregon -- History -- Sources.; Northwest Coast of North America.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.; Southwest, New.
Notes: Written by direction of the Honorable John Forsyth, secretary of state of the United States, and published by order of the Senate, on motion of the Honorable L. F. Linn, chairman of the Select committee on the Oregon territory.

Chronologically arranged, 1493-1839.

Published also with document series note: 26th Congress. 1st session. <Senate> <174>.

Notes on the Louisiana purchase and the Southwwest are included, with brief accounts of overland journeys, notably those of Alvar Nunez Cabeza deVaca (whose wanderings for eight years, 1528-1536, brought him to Cullacan, near the Gulf of California) and the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806.