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1935, Oregon journal edition. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 302pp. Signed by the author. Maps, photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index. The cloth covers have been laminated and there is a previous owner's label on the front endpaper. "John McLoughlin's life portrays rich contrasts of fortune and adversity, of power and humiliation, of benevolence and persecution. John McLoughlin is the foremost figure of the fur trade-settlement period of the Pacific Northwest, for two decades after 1824. Commandant, or chief factor, of the British Hudson's Bay Company, which dominated the country and the Indians, he reigned as a benevolent despot, befriended Americans, alienated thereby his British superiors, became an American citizen at Oregon City, was despoiled of his lands by his political enemies in Congress, died in 1857 broken in spirit and fortune but confident of ultimate justice" - from the Foreword. Book about John McLoughlin. Time Period 1800's. Illustrations by Constance Cole. Foreword by Leslie M. Scott. Locale: Northwest Canada; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Biography, Colonization--Canada, Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company, Settlement--Canada).…