FROM NEW YORK TO PORTLAND, OREGON VIA STRAITS OF MAGELLAN, WITH A HISTORY OF THE VOYAGES, SCENES, PLACES,INCIDENTS AND NOTES OF THE JOURNEY.

Walla Walla, W. T. : Stateman Book and Job Printing Office, 1879. First edition. 80pp. Original printed wrappers.A very nice copy of a very scarce Pacific Northwest item A descriptive account of his sixty-five day ocean voyage aboard the steamship Oregon. He arrived in Portland, Oregon on April 22, 1879. He states of the river Columbia: "We hear much of the mighty Hudson, but it is an insignificant stream compared with the Columbia. If this river had country seats such as adorn the Hudson, it would be unequalled. Its scenery both in variety and picturesqueness far exceeds anything of the river." National Union Catalogue locates 3 copies. Not in Howes, Graff, Soliday, Eberstadt, Streeter nor Decker. (Inventory #: 8837)