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Title Washington territory: The great North-west, her material resources, and claims to emigration. A plain statement of things as they exist
Subject Washington (State) -- Description and travel; Northwest, Pacific -- Description and travel
Creator Mercer, A. S. ǂq (Asa Shinn), 1839-1917
Description Asa Mercer published his first work when he was twenty-five, as he was arranging for a second emigration party to the Pacific coast. He said later that copies of this work were distributed for free. Mercer served two sessions as the first president of Washington Territorial University. From Washington he moved to Oregon and then finally to Texas. With Washington Territory, Mercer gave a minute account of the territorial boundaries and described the geographical, topographical and sociological features of the region west of the Cascades including climate, agricultural resources, lumber, minerals, fish and fishing, whaling, grazing lands, manufacturing, the markets and trade, Indians, newspapers, schools, and towns. This is the first detailed account of the area after its establishment as a territory, with an appendix of elaborate tables of routes and distances to various mining regions of Idaho and Montana
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1865
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Identifier F891-_M5-1865.pdf
Language eng
Spatial Coverage Washington, United States
Rights Management http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Holding Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Scanning Technician Ellen Moffatt
Digitization Specifications Original scanned with Hasselblad H2D 39 megapixel digital camera and saved as 600 ppi tiffs. Display images created in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 and generated in Adobe Acrobat ProX as multiple page pdf.
Call Number F891 .M5 1865; Record ID 99200190102001
ARK ark:/87278/s6pg3t9n
Setname uum_rbc
ID 308945
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pg3t9n

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Setname uum_rbc
ID 308939
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pg3t9n/308939
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