History of Oregon Territory...[bound with] Travels in the Great Western Prairies: & Travels in the Californias and Scenes in Pacific 1844

3 volumes in 1. 80; 112; iv, 96 pp. With frontispiece woodcut map. 22.5x13 cm (9x5¼"), later morocco-backed cloth boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt; fresh endpapers. History of Oregon and Travels in Californias are First Editions, Travels in the Great Western Prairies is Second Edition. About this book Collection of Farnham's excellent works on the American West. The frontispiece map in this copy is bound upside-down, as is typical of the first edition. Howes F48; Howes F50 and Howes F49.

Thomas Jefferson Farnham (1804–1848) was an explorer and author of the American West in the first half of the 19th century. His travels included interaction with missionary Jason Lee, and he later led a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. While in Oregon Country he wrote a petition to federal authorities that requested federal protection of the region from the United States government, which was signed by many of the local settlers who had come from the United States. Thomas Jefferson Farnham traveled extensively west of the Rockies, as well as to the Sandwich Islands and to Mexico. After 1840 he resided for some time in the environs of New York where he wrote and published "Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains and in Oregon Territory" (1841).