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The Correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831-6: A Record of Two Expeditions for the Occupation of the Oregon Country, with Maps, Introduction and Index (Classic Reprint)
The Correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J Wyeth 1831-6 A Record of Two Expeditions for the Occupation of the Oregon Country with Maps Introduction and Index - Classic Reprint Author:Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth Excerpt from The Correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831-6: A Record of Two Expeditions for the Occupation of the Oregon Country, With Maps, Introduction and Index — American enterprise pitted against English on the Columbia in the line of fur trading operations was clearly worsted. It is not difficult to see the reasons w... more »hy this was so. The Oregon country lay much more accessible to British activity than to ours. Judg ing merely from the map it seemed almost equally contiguous to British and to American possessions. The forty-ninth parallel 'had deen extended to the Rocky mountains in 1818 as the divid ing line between the United States and British America. The southern limit of the Oregon territory was the forty-second paral' lel, the northern boundary was fifty-four degrees and forty min utes, hence it abutted on the United States through the length of seven degrees and on English territory through nearly six. But considered with reference to actual conditions in this border coun try the advantage of the English is patent.
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