The Plains and the Rockies
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Excerpt from The Plains and the Rockies: A Bibliography of Original Narratives of Travel and Adventure, 1800-1865 Furthermore the very small commercial value which most of them had at the time when they were printed and for a long time afterwards did not conduce to their preservation. No general historical work of which I have any knowledge attempts to cover in any comprehensive manner this period. The two most important books dealing with the period before the gold rush are "Chittenden´s Fur Trade" and "W. I. Marshall´s Acquisition of Oregon." For the subsequent period there is nothing except Bancroft´s Works. These latter are very uneven in character; the volumes relating to Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Utah being the least useful and most fragmentary of any of Mr. Bancroft´s works. His history of California contains very important and extended references to the early overland expeditions. Mr. Bancroft collected an immense amount of material relating to this early period which still remains in manuscript in the Bancroft Library. Undoubtedly he made use of it in writing his history and therefore it is to be doubted whether the publication of the many diaries and reminiscences would prove any substantial contribution to our knowledge of the period. The Missouri Historical Society and Kansas Historical Society also possess considerable material still in manuscript of great interest and their publications contain much of prime importance. The same can be said of the publications of the Historical Societies of Montana, Oregon and South Dakota, and also of the annual publications of the Oregon Society of Pioneers. The New York Historical Society possesses a considerable portion if not all of the records of the American Fur Company´s operations on the upper Missouri. A large number of the books of Ft. Union are there, books of account, letter books, etc., together with a large mass of correspondence which to my knowledge has never been examined, or, if at all. only casually. The Archives of the Hudson Bay Company in London probably contain the greatest amount of material relative to the Northern Rocky Mountain region, but so far, very little work has been done on them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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