...Harry R. Stevens Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest . By Holbrook Stewart H. . New York : Macmillan , 1952 . Pp. viii , 270 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 337 Adams during the same period; perhaps a more appropriate...

...Rodolfo Acuña Texas Annexation and the Mexican War: A Political Study of the Old Northwest . By Tutorow Norman E. . Palo Alto : Chadwick House, Publishers, Ltd. , 1978 . Pp. xi , 320 . $12.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 375 promise calculated...

... nebulous generalizations gave rise to an enormous literature, pro and con.5 He probably suffered as much at the hands of his disciples as he did at those of his detractors. A recent severe critic, Francis S. Philbrick, a law professor who has studied the Old Northwest for fifty years, is amusing...

... this review appears. It is a good book designed for serious scholars. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL JAMES L. GODFREY Texas Annexation and the Mexican War: A Political Study of the Old Northwest. By Norman E. Tutorow. Palo Alto: Chadwick House, Publishers, Ltd., 1978. Pp. xi, 320. $12.95...

.... F. Poole, and, in a culminating work, B. A. Hinsdale, whose Old Northwest, appearing in 1888, helped to fix Cross Section and Frontier 449 the definition of an important historical unit. A second tradition was the study of American government, primarily of those political and legal institutions...

... the monopoly exercised by the Hudson s Bay Company and its reluctance to compete more actively with the French in the development of Canada. Originally this attack sprang from Dobbs s belief in the existence of a Northwest Passage. The difficulties he en­ countered strengthened his animosity toward the Hudson...

... of pro­ portion, in many sections it reveals the author to be possessed of fine critical judgment, literary acumen, and a rich background in French literature and French philosophy. JOEL colton. Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest. By Stewart H. Holbrook. New York: Macmillan, 1952. Pp...

... and beach themselves. After several generations, these human remains decayed. Because acquiring babies and corpses had become difficult, the owner of the shrine substituted them with wooden carvings. Although that story is the one familiar to Northwest Coast scholars, Hunt s unpublished manuscripts...

... and the territories during the same period. The distillation of Anglo-American experience in colonialism is contained in one of the most remarkable charters of modern times: An Ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States Northwest of the river Ohio, adopted by the Congress...

... and French philosophy. JOEL colton. Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest. By Stewart H. Holbrook. New York: Macmillan, 1952. Pp. viii, 270. $3.75. Mr. Holbrook, newspaperman of Portland, Oregon, and author of more than half a dozen books, has written this one out of thirty years experience...

... of view evidenced as early as 1862 during the debate over the Canadian Militia Bill. Ac­ cording to one authority, the explanation of the country s apparent Barry M. Gough teaches history at Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. Among his publications is The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast...

... Span­ ish source was not so clear. In 1843 we offered to accept the forty-ninth degree, and in 1844 Calhoun, secretary of state, was willing to accept the Columbia Valley; but both offers were re­ jected. At that time immigration was turning toward Oregon and the Northwest was alive to the question. Two...

... land, as we know today; norther/ and the same latitude would put the island midway between Brisbane and the North Cape of New Zealand. Mr. Case amends Swift s northwest to northeast and finds, moreover, that the latter location east of Australia would make Gulliver s plans on leaving Blefuscu sound...

... and knowable. It is a mutation of humanity made mute. The observations of the commission are amply confirmed by our own experience in the Northwest Province since the early s; although our 32 informants added that zombies (dithotsela; also diphoko) were...

... lands of the North and the Northwest, to exercise, in a short time, certain of the civil rights of the natives. The same motive which actuated southern opposition to the Homestead bill of 1854 played a large part in the promotion of the Know Nothing organization in the slave states in 1855. It has been...

... worthless. There was little coin in the Northwest, and it was necessary to resort to barter at times. On April 14, 1779, Colonel Clark ordered the commissary general to contract with the inhabitants for such necessaries as the service might require and to pay the same in merchandise at such rates as could...

... or to inhibit a democratic society. Politically, the situation is discouraging, but not hopeless. Both in the Communist northwest and in the areas controlled by Chung­ king a one-party system of government prevails. The Kuomintang s monopoly of power, grounded upon Dr. Sun s concept of political tutelage...

...) . RT American . 2013 . “‘Idle No More’ Aims to Help Indigenous Canadians.” January 9 . www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DeWNZY7Ves (accessed July 15, 2013) . Ruby Robert H. Brown John A. . 1993 . “Indian Slavery in the Pacific Northwest.” In Northwest Historical Series . Glendale...

... with preconceived prejudices against slavery, with a dislike of Southern aristocracy, and with a determination to work as free farmers in the shirt-sleeve society of the Northwest. Thirdly, the belief that nativism might prove a rallying point under which mod­ erate Northerners and Southerners would gather...

... but tough-minded clergyman and his family endured the rigors of pioneer life in the Northwest with courage and humor and left a fascinating record in this correspondence. Mr. Blegen has provided a good introduction to an attractive little book. Harry R. Stevens. ...