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McLoughlin and Old Oregon

By EVA EMERY DYE. A Chronicle. Sixth Edition. I2mo, 381 pages. $1.50.

This is a most graphic and interesting chronicle of the move ment which added to the United States that vast territory, previously a British possession, of which Oregon formed a part, and how Dr. John McLoughlin, then chief factor of the Hudson s Bay Company for the Northwest, by his fatherly interest in the settlers, displeased the Hudson s Bay Company and aided in bringing this about. The author has gathered her facts at first hand, and as a result the work is vivid and picturesque and reads like a romance.

"A spirited narrative of what life in the wilderness meant in the early days, a record of heroism, self-sacrifice, and dogged persistence; a graphic page^of the story of the American pioneer." New York Mail.

Gass s Journal of the Lewis and Clark Ex pedition (McClurg Library Reprints of Americana)

Reprinted from the Edition of 1811. With an Introduc tion by DR. JAMES K. HOSMER, an analytical Index, fac similes of the original illustrations, and a rare portrait of Patrick Gass. In one square octavo volume, boxed, 35 P a g es &gt; gilt to P- $3-5 n t Large-paper edition, on Brown s hand-made paper, illustrations on Japan paper, limited to 75 copies, boxed. $9.00 net.

The appearance of this volume in the period of Lewis and Clark celebrations is especially pertinent, as no practical library edition has been available of the "Journal of Patrick Gass." His narrative was for seven years the only source from which any authentic knowledge of the great enterprise could be obtained. When at last the work based on the diaries of the Captains was given to the world, the earlier book, so far from being set aside, was found to be most important as confirming and supplementing what had been set down by the leaders, and, in fact, has not ceased to be held in high estimation up to the present moment.

"Several picturesque details Dr. Hosmer mentions (in the Intro duction ) which had eluded the argus eyes of Coues through a lifetime of waiting and watching. Whatever he learns he sets forth with a vivacity which keeps our attention expectant and appetite growing by what it feeds on." New York Evening Post.

"It restores Gass s Journal to a common use. The portrait of Gass, which serves as a frontispiece, is a distinct addition." American Historical Review.

"No edition of Lewis and Clark is complete unless accompanied by the Journal of Patrick Gass. The work has been well edited, and the mechanics ere of a superior character." Baltimore Sun.

A. C. McCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS, CHICAGO