Search Results: the undeveloped northern portion of the by scripps john locke

Chicago, 1856.. 20pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine stamped in brown and gilt. Text trimmed close at fore-edge, costing portions of words throughout. Good. A rare and important polemic "written in bitter hostility to the Hudson's Bay Company, and exposing their operations on the Pacific Coast and among the Indian tribes and fur traders from the earliest times" (Eberstadt). Scripps is perhaps best known as the author of one of Lincoln's earliest biographies, penned for the 1860 presidential campaign. A journalist in Chicago, he was the founder and chief editor of the CHICAGO DEMOCRATIC PRESS until it was purchased by the CHICAGO TRIBUNE in 1858, after which he served as chief editor of the latter for a number of years. In amongst his numerous criticisms of the Hudson's Bay Company, the author also includes a discussion of the depopulation of indigenous tribes through war and illness, and laments the lack of success by Christian missionaries in the region. "Scripps, author of an… Read More