{"product_id":"2940157948719","title":"54-40 or Fight (Illustrated)","description":"54-40 or Fight is part romance and part history. It is the fictionalized story of the Oregon trail migrations and some of the characters - women among them - who changed the course of history. Despite being published a century ago, the writing feels fresh and the characters are vividly portrayed. Hough's tale offers an inside view of a critical period of North American history at the end of the U.S. Civil War. The title refers to the Oregon Dispute, important in geopolitical diplomacy between the British Empire and the new American Republic. In 1844 the U.S. Democratic Party, appealing to expansionist sentiment, asserted that the U.S. had a claim to the entire Oregon Country up to the southern border of Alaska, which was at parallel 54°40 north.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story revolves around deals and arguments as America's President James Polk tries to enforce US claims on land north and south of its borders, balancing Amercian expansion into the Texas\/Mexican territories with the US hold on the Pacific coast. In 1844 the U.S. Democratic Party, appealing to expansionist sentiment, asserted that the U.S. had a claim to the entire Oregon Country, and the term \"54-40 or Fight\" came to be born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of the book contains the four original illustrations, rejuvenated, and six additional place-, time-, and subject-relevant illustrations that are unique to this edition of the book.","brand":"New York: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, 1909","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084329206000,"sku":"2940157948719","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157948719_p0.jpg?v=1764105683","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157948719","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}