The Canoe and the Saddle - A Critical Edition (Electronic book text)

In 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee stock toured the territories of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The Canoe and the Saddle recounts Theodore Winthrops Northwest tour. A novelized memoir of his travels, it became a bestseller when it was published shortly after the authors untimely death in the Civil War.