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Scarce work written at the time of the Oregon boundary controversy, setting forth the rights of the United States to this territory, describes the route from Missouri to Astoria, and descrbes Oregon itself. It also includes the journal kept by Peter Burnett, who later became the first civil governor of California. Streeter notes that "this and the Overton Johnson narrative published a year later, in 1846, are the only known contemporaneous accounts of the 1843 emigration published within a few years of the event." Graff 4657; Hill p.326; Howes W418; Mintz 497; Sabin 103997; Smith 11005; Streeter 2143; Wagner-Camp 119:1; Wheat Transmississippi 501.