Judge Matthew DEADY'S copy: Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America, and the Adjacent Territories
Washnigton, D.C. Blair and Rives, Printers, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xi, 228. Document 174. Published at the behest of the 26th Congress, 1st Session. With the folding map. Index. Recently bound in black pebble-grain cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine, original wraps bound-in. Wraps with fore-edge corners excised, as well as the penultimate leaf at rear (please see photos). Sporadic foxing. The map, with a closed one-inch tear at gutter, is in notably fresh condition. Former owner name of Matthew P. Deady in ink on front cover. Good+. Item #4928 With the provenance of Oregon pioneer, jurist and politician Matthew Deady. Deady was a major figure in the development of Oregon, from Territory to Statehood, serving chiefly in the field of jurisprudence, but also as a civic leader. He was a major force in founding the Multnomah County Library, and for twenty years served as president of the University of Oregon Board of Regents. That said, he never repudiated his 1850s support for slavery. As a result, Deady Hall, the University of Oregon Law School, was recently stripped of its name. The genesis for Greenhow's History of Oregon and California and the Other Territories on the North-West Coast of America, this report on the Northwest Coast was produced at the direction of Missouri Senator L. F. Linn, per his Select Committee on the Oregon Territory. According to Decker, in SOLIDAY, Greenhow relied heavily on Capt. Joseph Ingraham's Journal of the Brigantine "Hope", which provides a strong US-prejudice in the "Oregon Question." COWAN, p. 249; HOWES G389; SMITH, 3848. See TWENEY 89, Appendix B.
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