The Canoe and the Saddle or Klalam and Klickatat to which are now first added his Western Letters and Journals. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by John H. Williams.
Tacoma: John H. Williams, 1913. First Printing of the First US Edition. A near Fine copy in maroon cloth boards with vellum spine. In 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee stock toured the territories of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The Canoe and the Saddle recounts Theodore Winthrop’s Northwest tour. A novelized memoir of his travels, it became a bestseller when it was published shortly after the author’s untimely death in the Civil War. Whether offering portraits of Native American culture—in particular, commenting on the Chinook Jargon—making keen and often prescient observations on nature, or deploying transcendental, animist, or Hudson River School aesthetics, Winthrop develops a clear and compelling picture of a time and place still resonant and relevant today. Item #28126
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