“A vivid picture of the Indian wars preceding the Louisiana purchase, of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, and of events following the occupation of Oregon.”—_The Congregationalist._ “It may not be the great American novel we have been waiting for so long, but it certainly looks as though it would be very near it.”—_Rochester Times._ “The characters that are assembled in ‘The Conquest’ belong to the history of the United States, their story is a national epic.”—_Detroit Free Press._ McLoughlin and Old Oregon By EVA EMERY DYE. A Chronicle. Fifth Edition. 12mo, 381 pages. $1.50. This is a most graphic and interesting chronicle of the movement which added to the United States that vast territory, previously a British possession, of which Oregon formed a part, and how Dr. John McLoughlin, then chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company for the Northwest, by his fatherly interest in the settlers, displeased the Hudson’s Bay Company and aided in bringing this about. The author has gathered her facts at first hand, and as a result the work is vivid and picturesque and reads like a romance. “A spirited narrative of what life in the wilderness meant in the early days, a record of heroism, self-sacrifice, and dogged persistence; a graphic page of the story of the American pioneer.”—_New York Mail._ The Bridge of the Gods By F. H. BALCH. A Romance of Indian Oregon. New (seventh) Edition, enlarged size. With eight full-page illustrations by Laurens Maynard Dixon. Cloth, 12mo, 280 pages, gilt top. $1.50. Paper edition, without illustrations. 50 cents. Encouraged by the steady demand for this powerful story, since its publication twelve years ago, the publishers felt justified in issuing this attractive illustrated edition. The book has fairly earned its lasting popularity, not only by the intense interest of the story, but by its faithful delineation of Indian character. From the legends of the Columbia River and the mystical “bridge of the gods,” the author has derived a truthful and realistic picture of the powerful tribes that inhabited the Oregon country two centuries ago. The _Syracuse Herald_ calls the author of “The Bridge of the Gods” “the best writer of Indian romance since the days of Fenimore Cooper.” A Short History of Oregon By SIDONA V. JOHNSON. With seventeen illustrations from photographs, and a map of the Lewis and Clark route. 16mo, 320 pages, indexed. $1.00 _net_. FROM HENRY E. DOSCH, _Director of Exhibits at Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland_. “Every home in Oregon might well welcome this condensed, readable ‘History of Oregon,’ and, most important of all, the school children of the State are entitled to an opportunity to study it, to the end that the history of the State and the great and memorable achievement of Lewis and Clark may be intelligently understood and appreciated by every man, woman, and child in Oregon before the opening of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.” Letters from an Oregon Ranch