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pages 102-103

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025az http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,266
Title pages 102-103
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-07
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description generally reliable and void of conscious effort to be dramatic. Besides this, no one who has written about the Columbia, except David Thompson, ever traveled its full length. Other early voyagers such as Cox, Franchere, Ross, and others, made partial trips, and all of them, including Thompson, made simple records of their experiences. None of the later writers have followed its course completely, and have depended largely on hearsay and not personal observation. I have followed every foot of...

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