The canoe and the saddle : a critical edition

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The canoe and the saddle : a critical edition / Theodore Winthrop ; edited and with an introduction by Paul J. Lindholdt.

Winthrop, Theodore, 1828-1861 (Author). Lindholdt, Paul J. (Added Author).

Summary:

"In 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddle-bags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee stock toured the territories of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The Canoe and the Saddle recounts Theodore Winthrop's Northwest tour. A novelized memoir of his travels, it became a bestseller when it was published shortly after the author's untimely death in the Civil War. This critical edition of Winthrop's work, the first in over half a century, offers readers the original text with a narrative overview of the nature and culture of the Pacific Northwest and reflections on the ecological and racial turmoil that gripped the region at the time"--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0803298633
ISBN: 9780803298637
Physical Description: xxxii, 236 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "A Bison original"--Page 4 of cover.

Originally published: Boston : Ticknor & Fields, 1863 [c1862].
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: An entrance -- A Klalam grandee -- Whulge -- Owhhigh -- Forests of the Cascades -- "Boston tilicum" -- Tacoma -- Sowee house-Loolowcan -- Via mala -- Treachery -- Kamaiakan -- Lightning and torchlight -- The Dalles-their legend.