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    <title>history of Oregon, geographical and political</title>
    <subTitle>embracing an analysis of the old Spanish claims, the British pretensions, the United States title ... : and a thorough examination of The project of a national railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Wilkes, George</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1817-1885</namePart>
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    <publisher>W.H. Colyer</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1845</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>127 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">by George Wilkes.</note>
  <note>"To which is added a journal of the events of the celebrated emigrating expedition of 1843 ... from Missouri to Astoria ... by a member of the recently organized Oregon Legislature : the whole concluding with an appendix containing the treaties, diplomatic correspondence, and negotiations between Spain, Russia, Great Britain, and the United States in relation to the north west coast."</note>
  <note>LC copy has green paper wrapper bound at end.</note>
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    <geographic>Oregon Territory</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pacific railroads</topic>
    <topic>Early projects</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Northern boundary of the United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Boundaries</topic>
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">F880 .W68</classification>
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    <note>Checklist Amer. imprints, 45-6903</note>
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    <note>Wagner-Camp (4th ed.), 119:1</note>
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      <title>Proposal for a national rail-road to the Pacific Ocean</title>
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