Excerpt from Life on the Plains of the Pacific, Oregon: Its History, Condition and Prospects; Containing a Description of the Geography, Climate and Productions, With Personal Adventures Among the Indians; During a Residence if the Author on the Plains Bordering the Pacific While Connected With the Oregon Miss
If this volume does not commend itself to the favorable considerations of the reading public, it will not be owing to any deficiency of material in the possession of tho author, to enable him to furnish a most interesting and instructive work. Though his opportunities for the acquirement of that kind of knowledge resulting from observation, and necessary to qualify one to instruct entertain mankind, during seven years of constant journeying in various parts of world, both by sea and land, have been perhaps greater than usually falls to the lot of even authors of books of travel, yet, conscious of his want of tho requisite qualifications to array his work, in that fascination drapery necessary to charm the reader at once into an unqualified approval, the author casts himself upon the public with all due deference.
The principal apoloqy necessary to offer for the publication of his work, is a desire to connect with entertainment the promotion of a more extensive and particular knowledge of those interesting portions of the world where it has been the privilege of tho author to travel, and make his observations.
While the world is literally teeming with fictitious publications, here is presented a volume of facts, for the most of which tho author is alone responsible; and in the absence of the tinsel adorning of a glowing and high-sounding style, the truthfulness of what is narrated is the principal merit to which the work is entitled.
The "History of tho Oregon Mission," to which tho first chapter of the work is devoted, has been drawn from the most reliable sources, and, principally from the short notes of the late Rev. Jason Lee, and the Journal of the late Cyrus Shepherd, the first missionary teacher in Oregon.
This part, the author flatters himself, will supply the Christian public with a needful desideratum, with respect to the tine character of that important Mission, and of the courageous and self-denying men who were the first to carry the Gospel across the Rocky Mountains, and to proclaim it along the shores of tho Pacific Ocean.
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