Territory West of the Rocky Mountains. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting the Correspondence Between this Government and that of Great Britain, on the Subject of the Claims of the Two Governments to the Territory West of the Rocky Mountains

Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1828.

First Edition. Softcover. very good. Document No. 199, 20th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives. 77 pp, disbound. Creasing near spine, first gathering loosening, otherwise very good. Howes M-552; Sabin 48095. Contains correspondence between Henry Clay (as Secretary of State) and Albert Gallatin (as American ambassador to England) relating to the claims of the United Statea and Great Britain to the Oregon Country. Also includes the text of a "Draft of Convention Between Great Britain and the United States, Proposed by the British Plenipotentiaries" from 1818; and the "American Counter-statement annexed to the Protocol of the seventh Conference" from 1826, and extracts from related statements on the boundary dispute issued at conferences between American and British Plenipotentiaries in 1827.

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