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• Title:The Northwest coast, or, Three years' residence in Washington Territory / by James G. Swan ; with numerous illustrations.
  
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• Variant Title:Northwest coast
  Three years' residence in Washington Territory
  Northwest coast, or, Three years at Shoal-water Bay
  
• Author/Creator:Swan, James G., 1818-1900.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Harper & Brothers, publisher.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Harper & Brothers, 1857.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: F891 .S97
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Swan, James G., 1818-1900.
  Pioneers--Washington (State)--Biography.
  Pioneers--Washington (State)--Willapa Bay--Biography.
  Indians of North America--Washington (State)
  Washington (State)--Description and travel.
  Washington Territory--History.
  Willapa Bay (Wash.)--Description and travel.
  Willapa Bay (Wash.)--History.
  
• Description:435 pages : illustrations, folded map ; 20 cm.
  
• Summary:"The intention of this volume is to give a general and concise account of that portion of the Northwest Coast lying between the Straits of Fuca and the Columbia River."--Page [v].
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes:Listed in: The Washington 89 / by George H. Tweney.
  "Fresh books of travel and adventure, published by Harper & Brothers, New York": pages [2]-[4] at end. "Harper's New Catalogue."--Last page of text.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Appendix. Extract from Treaty between the United States and Great Britain of lands westward of the Rocky Mountains
  Donation Act of September 27th, 1850
  Donation Act of February 14th, 1853
  A vocabulary of the Chehalis and Chenook or Jargon languages, with the derivation of the words used in the latter
  List of words in the Nootkan language the most in use, from John R. Jewett's Narrative of the Massacre of the Crew of the Ship Boston by the savages of Queen Charlotte's Sound, 1803
  Comparative words in the Nootka and Chenook or Jargon
  Account of the vessels engaged in the sea-otter fur-trade on the Northwest coast prior to 1808
  General Gibb's letter on the cause of the Indian troubles in Washington Territory.