Excerpt from Romance of the Gateway Through the Cascade Range Her story, Briefly told, of the Most Magnificent Adventure in the Annals of America, thrills the hearts of all, but for lack of space in this little volume, our readers are respectfully referred to The Mentor. When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the unknown land Where Rolls the Oregon, he instructed them to find the best low-grade watershed route across the mountains, between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, or, as the ...
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Excerpt from Romance of the Gateway Through the Cascade Range Her story, Briefly told, of the Most Magnificent Adventure in the Annals of America, thrills the hearts of all, but for lack of space in this little volume, our readers are respectfully referred to The Mentor. When President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the unknown land Where Rolls the Oregon, he instructed them to find the best low-grade watershed route across the mountains, between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, or, as the Indians expressed it, Over the Shining Mountains to Everywhere Salt Water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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