PETITION OF A NUMBER OF THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, PRAYING A DONATION OF LAND TO SETTLERS IN THE OREGON TERRITORY. January 6, 1840.; 26th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, 40. Referred to the Select Committee on the Oregon Territory, and ordered to be printed.
(Washington): Blair & Rives, printers, 1840. First Edition. Removed. 4pp, drop-title, neatly removed from a nonce volume. 9" x 5.75" Signed by some 150 residents of the State of Missouri, stating: "That many of us entertain a desire to emigrate to the Territory of Oregon, provided the obstacles which now..... More