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Title: The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Cooper, J. G. (James Graham), 1830-1902 Suckley, George, 1830-1869 Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 Gibbs, George, 1815-1873 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 United States. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the ... route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : Baillière brothers, London, H. Baillière (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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