Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Oregon and Its Institutions: Comprising a Full History of the Willamette University, the First Established on the Pacific Coast
The home of the author of the following pages is within the limits of the country which he has attempted to describe. A native of the great state of New York, a visitor to every continent on the globe, an admirer of ten thousand beautiful localities in the numerous coun tries which have come under his observation, he would not exchange his humble sunset home in the delightful valley of the Willamette River, near the blue and placid waters of the great Pacific Ocean, either for mansions Of wealth in the crowded city, or for any other spot which he has ever seen upon the surface of this green earth.
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