Important early account of the Oregon Country. The author traveled there in 1839, going to Bent's Fort and then north to the Oregon Trail. After a brief sojourn, during which he gathered materials, he sailed for home via the Sandwich Islands. Farnham was one of Jason Lee's converts to the proposition that the United States should forcefully assert its claim to the Pacific Northwest, and the book, first published in 1841, became an effective propaganda piece for boosters of American control of Oregon. Howes F50; Sabin 23872; Smith 3000; Streeter 3351; Wagner-Camp 85:4.