Zc70 - The Pacific Coast

Yale Collection of Western Americana

Scope

Use for works which describe the states of California, Oregon, and Washington and the following topics:

• Works on this region that also include Nevada and/or Idaho
• Works on the northwest coast of North America, i.e. roughly the region from Alaska to the northern boundary of California
• Works on the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana west of the continental divide, and British Columbia) for the periods before ca. l769 and after 1859
• Class works on this region between 1769 and 1859 in Zc74 except as noted elsewhere
• Early Pacific voyages of exploration that cannot be classed with a smaller locality
• Columbia River and Columbia River Valley
• Northwest boundary (from Rockies to the Pacific) after 1846; before 1846 class in Zc74
• San Juan Island dispute
• Military department of the Columbia (Oregon)
• Matthew Perry’s Expedition to Japan

Example

Scott, Thomas Fielding.
A charge to the clergy of the missionary diocese of Oregon, and of Washington and Idaho territories …, 1865.

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