CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



63 



Richardson (A. D.) — Continued. 



arranged by English words) of tlio Chinook 

 Jargon, and the numerals 1-10,20,30,100, 1000 

 in the same, pp. 502-503. 



Copies seen : Astor, Boston Athenseiim, Brit- 

 ish Museum, Congress, Trumbull. 



Some copies vary slightly iu the imprint, 

 and omit the date. (Eames, Harvard.) Another 

 edition : Hartford, 1869, 8°. (*) 



A later edition with title-page as follows : 



Beyond the Mississippi : | from the 



great river to the great ocean. | Life 

 and adventure | on the | prairies, moun- 

 tains, and Pacific coast. | With more 

 than two hundred illustrations, from 

 photographs and original | sketches, 

 of the prairies, deserts, mountains, 

 rivers, mines, | cities, Indians, trap- 

 pers, pioneers, and great natural | 

 curiosities of the new states and terri- 

 tories. I New edition. | Written down 

 to summer of 1869. | By | Albert D. 

 Eichardson, | author of 'Field, dun- 

 geon and escape,' and 'Personal | his- 

 tory of Ulysses S. Grant.' | [Two lines 

 advertisement.] | 



Hartford: | American publishing 

 company, j 1875. 



2 p. 11. pp. i-xvi, 17-572, 8°. 



Linguistic contents as under title next above. 



Copies seen : Trumbull. 



Albert Deane Richardson, journalist, born 

 in Franklin, Mass., October 6, 1833, died in 

 New York city December 2, 1869. He was edu- 

 cated at the district school of his native village 

 and at HoUiston academy. At eighteen years 

 of age he went to Pittsburg, Pa., where he 

 formed a newspaper connection, wrote a farce 

 for Barney "Williams, and appeared a few times 

 on the stage. In 1857 he went to Kansas, 

 taking an active part in the political struggle 

 of the territory, attending antislavery meet- 

 ings, makingspeeches, and corresponding about 

 the issues of the hour with the Boston Journal. 

 He was also secretary of the territorial legisla- 

 ture. Two years later he went to Pike's Peak, 

 the gold fever being then at its height, in com- 

 pany with Horace Greeley, between whom and 

 Kichardson a lasting friendship was formed. In 

 the autumn of 1859 he made a journey through 

 the southwestern territories, and sent accounts 

 of his wanderings to eastern journals. During 

 the winter that preceded the civil war he vol- 

 unteered to go through the south as secret cor- 

 respondent of the Tribune, and returned, after 

 many narrow escapes, just before the firing on 

 Sumter. He next entered the field as war cor- 

 respondent, and for two years alternated 

 between Virginia and the southwest, being 

 present at many battles. On the night of May 

 3, 1863, he undertook, in company with Junius 

 Henri Browne, a fellow coi-respondcnt of the 



Richardson (A. D.) — Continued, 



Tribune, and Richard T. Colburn, of the New 

 York World, to run the batteries of Vicksburg 

 on two barges, which were lashed to a steam 

 tug. After they had been under fire for more 

 than half an hour, a large shell struck the tug, 

 and, bursting in the furnace, threw the coals on 

 the barges and then set them on fire. Out of 

 34 men, 18 were killed or wounded and 16 were 

 captured, the correspondents among them. The 

 Confederate government would neither release 

 nor exchange the Tribune men, who, after 

 spending eighteen months in seven southern 

 prisons, escaped from Salisbury, N. C, inthe 

 dead of winter, and, walking 400 miles, arrived 

 within the national lines at Strawberry Plains, 

 Tenn., several months before the close of the 

 war. — Appleton's Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



Ross (Alexander). Adventures | of the 

 first settlers on the | Oregon or Colum- 

 bia river : | being | a narrative of the 

 expedition fitted out by | John Jacob 

 Astor, I to establish the | " Pacific fur 

 company;" | with an account of some 

 I Indian tribes on the coast of the 

 Pacific. I By Alexander Ross, | one of 

 the adventurers. | 



Loudon: | Smith, Elder and co., 65 

 Cornhill. | 1849. 



Title verso name of printer 1 1. preface pp. 

 iii-v, contents pp. vi-xv, errata p. [xvi], text pp. 

 1-352, 12°. 



Vocabulary of the Chinook (200 words) and 

 numerals (1-5000), pp. 342-348.— Vocabulary of 

 the Chinook Jargon (30 words), p. 349. 



Copies seen : Astor, Bancroft, Boston 

 Athenaeum, British Museum, Bureau of Eth- 

 nology, Congress, Trumbull. 



Alexander Ross, author, bom in Nairnshire, 

 Scotland, May 9, 1783, died in Colony Gardens 

 (now in "Winnipeg, Manitoba), Red River Set- 

 tlement, British North America, October 23, 

 1856. He came to Canada in 1805, taught in 

 Glengarry, U. C, and in 1810 joined John Jacob 

 Astor's expedition to Oregon. Until 1824 he 

 was a fur-trader and in the service of the Hud- 

 son Bay Company. About 1825 he removed to 

 the Red River settlement and was a member 

 of the council of Assineboia, and was sheriflF 

 of the Red River settlement for several years. 

 He was for fifteen years a resident iu the territo- 

 ries of the Hudson Bay Comp.any, and has given 

 the result of his observations in the works : 

 Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon 

 or Columbia River; being a Narrative of the 

 Expedition fitting out by .John Jacob Astor to 

 establish the Pacific Fur Company, with an 

 Account of some Indian Tribes on the Coast of 

 the Pacific (London, 1849) ; The Fur-Hunters of 

 the Far "West, a Narrative of Adventures in 

 the Oregon and Rocky Mountains (2 vols. 1855). 

 and The Rod River .Settlemeut (1856).— .ij*i*J«- 

 ton's Cyclop, of Am. Biuy . 



