“One of the few books from which we can obtain any thing like accurate information of the character of the country between the Mississippi and the Pacific. As descriptive of a race fast passing away, and of the wild and wonderful country from which they are perishing, and through which the march of civilization is forcing its way, to the dazzling treasures of the Pacific borders, the work is attractive, and is got up in a style and character of most of the publications of Mr. Putnam. The cuts are very admirable specimens of the high perfection to which engraving on wood has arrived.”—Democratic Review.
Astoria;
Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.
BY WASHINGTON IRVING.
With Map. 12mo. $1 50.
“A beautiful edition of Irving’s highly graphic and stirring sketch of the early enterprises of John Jacob Astor, which will now be read with even more interest than when first written.”—Evangelist.
“It is one of those rare works which belongs, by the value of its subject and the truthfulness of its details, to authentic history, and by its vivid descriptions, and exciting incidents to the more varied province of Romance.”—Albany Atlas.
“Loses nothing of its interest by the late discoveries, &c., beyond the Rocky Mountains.”—Recorder.
“One of Irving’s most valuable works. * * * Still fresh, instructive and entertaining.”—Holden’s Magazine.