The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America"This edition is the first bound with "An Account of the Country of the Oregon," an anonymous description of the Pacific northwest, probably by an employee of the Hudson (Charles G. Nicolay)." Bookseller. |
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