The Natural History of Washington Territory and Oregon: With Much Relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah, and California ... Being Those Parts of the Final Reports on the Survey of the Northern Pacific Railroad Route, Relating to the Natural History of the Regions Explored ...Ballière Brothers, 1860 - 104 pages |
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