Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 2, October 21-December 4, 1839 / and De Smet's Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846

The volume collects two mid-19th-century travel accounts and mission reports from the Pacific Northwest, combining a firsthand riverine journey with observations on geography, river mouths, rapids and falls, timber, prairies, native camps, and Hudson's Bay Company posts; it records settler cabins, mills, neighborhood life, and the methods and improvements of Protestant missions. Accompanying missionary narratives recount crossings of the Rockies, establishment of Catholic missions among inland tribes, descriptions of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, tribal chiefs, and mission buildings, and include maps and illustrations. Together the texts mix practical travel detail, ethnographic description, and commentary on economic potential and missionary enterprise in the Oregon region.