Amazon.com description: Product Description: 54-40 of Fight Part romance, part history, this fictional tale is the 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 54-40 in 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 Russian America at parallel 54°40 north. TITLE: 54-50 or Fight AUTHOR: Emerson Hough GENRE: Romance, fiction, Westerns, American, America, Books, History, U.S., Government, War, Military LENGTH: 220 Pages