Oregon and Eldorado

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Author

Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867

Title

Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers

Credits

Produced by Greg Bergquist, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains

Subject

Amazon River

Category

Text

eBook-No.

38774

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38774

Release Date

February 6, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.OREGON AND ELDORADO. — OREGON AND ELDORADO; — OR,
2. 2.ROMANCE OF THE RIVERS. — BY
3. 3.THOMAS BULFINCH, — AUTHOR OF "THE AGE OF FABLE," "THE AGE OF CHIVALRY," ETC. — BOSTON: J. E. TILTON AND COMPANY. 1866. — Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by THOMAS BULFINCH , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. — STEREOTYPED BY C. J. PETERS AND SON. — PRINTED BY GEORGE C. RAND AND AVERY.
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.CONTENTS. — OREGON — ELDORADO
6. 6.OREGON.
7. 7.OREGON.
8. 8.CHAPTER I. — DISCOVERY OF COLUMBIA RIVER.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. — LEWIS AND CLARKE.
10. 10.CHAPTER III. — THE SIOUX.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV. — SUMMARY OF TRAVEL TO WINTER-QUARTERS.
12. 12.CHAPTER V. — INDIAN TRIBES.
13. 13.CHAPTER VI. — THE MARCH RESUMED. — FOOTNOTE:
14. 14.CHAPTER VII. — JOURNEY CONTINUED. — FOOTNOTE:
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII. — THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI AND COLUMBIA.
16. 16.CHAPTER IX. — THE PARTY IN THE BOATS.
17. 17.CHAPTER X. — THE DESCENT OF THE COLUMBIA.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI. — CLARKE'S RIVER.
19. 19.CHAPTER XII. — FROM THE JUNCTION OF THE KOOSKOOSKEE WITH LEWIS'S RIVER TO THE COLUMBIA. — FOOTNOTE:
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII. — WINTER-QUARTERS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV. — A NEW YEAR.
22. 22.CHAPTER XV. — WINTER LIFE.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI. — THE RETURN.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVII. — THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII. — CAPT. CLARKE'S ROUTE DOWN THE YELLOWSTONE. — FOOTNOTE:
26. 26.ELDORADO.
27. 27.ELDORADO
28. 28.CHAPTER I. — THE DISCOVERY.
29. 29.CHAPTER II. — ORELLANA DESCENDS THE RIVER.
30. 30.CHAPTER III. — ORELLANA'S ADVENTURE CONTINUED.
31. 31.CHAPTER IV. — SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
32. 32.CHAPTER V. — RALEIGH'S FIRST EXPEDITION.
33. 33.CHAPTER VI. — RALEIGH'S ADVENTURES CONTINUED.
34. 34.CHAPTER VII. — RALEIGH'S SECOND EXPEDITION.
35. 35.CHAPTER VIII. — THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHERS.
36. 36.CHAPTER IX. — MADAME GODIN'S VOYAGE DOWN THE AMAZON.
37. 37.CHAPTER X. — MADAME GODIN'S VOYAGE CONTINUED.
38. 38.CHAPTER XI. — HERNDON'S EXPEDITION.
39. 39.CHAPTER XII. — HERNDON'S EXPEDITION CONTINUED.
40. 40.CHAPTER XIII. — HERNDON'S EXPEDITION CONTINUED.
41. 41.CHAPTER XIV. — HERNDON'S EXPEDITION CONCLUDED.
42. 42.CHAPTER XV. — LATEST EXPLORATIONS.
43. 43.CHAPTER XVI. — THE NATURALIST ON THE AMAZON.
44. 44.CHAPTER XVII. — ANIMATED NATURE. — THE END. — Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, No. 3, Cornhill, Boston.

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