The Mexican War is treated in detail, the accounts of the battles being based upon official documents and military reports.
The events leading up to the conquest of New Mexico and California, and the settlement of the old controversy over the ownership of the Oregon region, are treated as phases of the western movement. Then follows a full discussion of the Compromise of 1850, and the volume closes with the Purchase of Alaska.
Mountaineering and
Exploration in the
Selkirks
A Record of Pioneer Work among the Canadian Alps, 1908-1912
By Howard Palmer
Corresponding Member of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
With 219 Illustrations and 2 New Maps. $5.00
A contribution to the description and history of a region that has been sadly neglected. The author is the first to have surveyed and photographed a large territory of the Selkirks, covering about 600 square miles in the northerly part. His superb photographs, some taken from the top of the loftiest peaks, are a great addition to this important and fascinating work.