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226 pp. With 2 maps, one of them folding; wood-engraved frontispiece showing the mouth of the Columbia River. 15x9.5 cm. (6x3¾"), original printed wrappers. First Edition.

Overview of the Oregon situation at a time of controversy. As Wagner-Camp notes, "In addition to presenting the British arguments in the Oregon Controversy, Nicolay describes in detail the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest and the rise and development of the fur trade. He takes freely from the printed primary sources, such as Ross Cox, Fremont, and others." The untitled folding map of the Pacific Northwest faces page 102, measures 13.7x11.3 cm. The single-page map shows Vancouver Island, Puget Sound, the mouth of the Columbia River, and intervening country. Rare in the original wrappers, issued as Knight's Weekly Volume for All Readers LXXXIX. Howes N151; Sabin 55251; Smith 7311; Wagner-Camp 112c:1. With bookplate of Robert Ernest Cowan on the verso of the leaf preceding the half-title, the bookplate of Brandon Church Sunday School Library on the recto of that leaf, their ink name on the inside of front wrapper.