New England Magazine Vol 33

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333631567
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book New England Magazine, Vol. 33 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New England Magazine, Vol. 33: An Illustrated Monthly; September 1905-February 1906 In reality, Carver went no farther than the Dakotas, but he gathered from the Indians and the French traders with whom he came in con tact a vast amount of more or less authentic information which he em bodied in his subsequent writings, and it was he who first made use of the name Oregon, applying it not only to the river which had been designated on the old French maps as the River of the West, but also to a considerable territory, which he portrayed on the map, made by him, as a vast island. The suspicion that Carver invented many of the names by which he designated western localities has led to the belief in some quarters that the word Oregon was also of his own invention, but on the other hand there appears to be foundation for the claim that it is an Indian word meaning the roll ing of the waters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.