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  the Rocky Mountains.--Mountain Sheep, &c.--Continuation of the Journey.--Unhappy Accident.--Reflections.--News


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  Federal Co-operative| | | Bond Fund | 390,484.44| 28,539.55| 361,944.89 ------------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------- Total State


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  the Cayuses.-- Doings of the missionaries.--Drowning of Mr. Rogers and family.--George Geere.--Volcanoes.--Petition against Governor McLaughlin


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  the missionaries.--Drowning of Mr. Rogers and family.--George Geere.--Volcanoes.--Petition against Governor McLaughlin


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  _To the Board of Managers_: "GENTLEMEN,--It is my painful duty to make you acquainted with a horrible


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id: 15911
author: Franchère, Gabriel
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  As soon as we arrived, we were visited by a canoe manned by three white the cape all day, they came on board in the evening without having found two Indians, in a small canoe, to examine the course of this river, a Having passed a deserted village, and then several islands, we came in all this day, and at evening our guide made us enter a little river, on party of Mr. David Stuart, in a canoe manned by two of his men. post on the bank of this river, and having erected a log-house, he ships-of-war met, in fact, at that island; but after having a long time three men whom we had left at the old-house, arrived in a little canoe eight A.M. We crossed the lake, and entered a small river, and having a few days before our arrival, having been obliged to go up Red river to

title:
  Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific


id: 14881
title: The Log School-House on the Columbia
author: Butterworth, Hezekiah
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  said ''Spirits,'' and they all went away like so many children. "White master," said the old chief, "I have brought to you the Light of "Saw--saw!" said Mrs. Woods; then turned away to bring him water. in Oregon, and Mrs. Woods did not soon forgive the Indian for taking away "He talked to us so grandly," said Gretchen to Mrs. Woods one evening, The chief''s eye followed him for a time; then the old man turned a happy "I have come to have a smoke-talk with you," said the old chief, taking "You are a good old Injun," said Mrs. Woods, yielding to her better self When Gretchen came home from school, Mrs. Woods told her what had The Indian maid was eager to hear the violin, but the old chief said: "It "It is a day of the Great Manitou," said the old chief. "Yes," said Gretchen--a consciousness of her true calling in life coming


id: 29543
title: Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
author: Meeker, Ezra
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  Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail very men who had made the trip to Oregon in the old days was traversing the trail once more, moving with ox team and covered wagon from his home for the Oregon Country went by way of the Santa Fé Trail about as far as Soon after we had left the Missouri River we came to a small bridge over We camped but two days on the bank of the Columbia River. line--nearly as many miles as the Oregon Trail is long; that is, almost river, and left our boat at the Indians'' camp near the mouth. We had met on the Yakima River, at the place where the old trail crosses Just before I got to Stuck River crossing I came to a turn in the trail The journey back over the old Oregon Trail by ox team was made during my


id: 28815
title: The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition.
author: Balch, Frederic Homer
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  His wife lay with closed eyes and flushed face amid the white pillows. The little lame boy said nothing, but came up to Cecil, took his hand, "Chiefs and warriors, who dwell in lodges and talk with men, Tohomish, great war-chief of the tribes of the Wauna, and had never known robing him with fire, and I thought he looked like the Indian Long did Multnomah and his chiefs sit in council that day. council looked at him; even the chief, Snoqualmie, did not turn his "I was chief of a tribe; we dwelt in the land the Great Spirit gave hand and look on a face like my mother''s. On the next day came the races, the great diversion of the Indians. was broken up, you talked wisely and like a great chief and warrior; Indians that the war-chief should sicken, that Multnomah should show


id: 10751
title: Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist
author: Lomax, E. L. (Edward Lloyd)
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  C.A. WHITTIER, City Ticket Agent, 528 Main St. LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND--23 Water St.--S. Freight and Passenger Agent, Mountain Div. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.--1 Montgomery St.--W.H. HURLBURT, Assistant General Fourth Columbia Tour: Portland to Alaska and return. Fifth Columbia Tour: Portland to San Francisco by boat. miles of changeful beauty all the way to Portland; Multnomah Falls, a in the water could be seen many of the stately trees which the Great The lava formation runs from Portland to Spokane Falls, as far north as there are two night passenger boats from Portland down, the "R.R. Thompson" and the "S.G. Reed," both stern-wheelers of large size, start from Portland; they leave Tacoma for all points on the Sound, and The Ocean steamers sail every fourth day from Portland to San Francisco. State-rooms on the River and Sound steamers are provided with one double hundreds of miles on this new division of the Union Pacific the country


id: 11508
title: Reminiscences of a Pioneer
author: Thompson, William
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  Indian leaped upon young Driskol''s horse and started off. Taking deadly aim the five men fired, killing four Indians. Charley told John Fairchilds that when he was a little boy the Indians Indians in considerable numbers came to the camp, headed by the chief. river, to which place the white men moved, followed by the Indians. power of the Modoc Indians as a tribe for all time, and from that day "I reside three miles from the Indian camp on Lost river. while the Indians were killing the hired man, cut one of the horses organized a force of a hundred men and by riding night and day reached horses, killing of stock, and occasional murder of white men for arms Rumors of the coming of the Indians had reached John Day Valley, and my young men and a younger brother, struck out for the old Indian trail


id: 13222
title: Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
author: Nordhoff, Charles
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  marvelously short a time was the work of his country men and women; and if plants are set out in little clumps in long rows, and a man at work in a Islands--a little lagoon on the main-land near by, in which you may see timing your visit as to leave you a week or ten days on the island before The best way to see the island is to land, as we did, at Waimea; ride to horses than people on the Islands; and the native family is poor, indeed, On such a "land," and from it, the chief and his people lived. As the chief was the ruler, the people looked to him for food in a time of thirty-thousand dollar school-house in a little town like Red Bluff, that Two other high chiefs of the island were exterminated by the same people.


id: 33877
title: The Voice of the Pack
author: Marshall, Edison
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  First he looked a long time with his left eye. mountaineers know, the sky turns green, the forests are simply curious, When Dan first took the rifle in his hands, Lennox was rather amazed at Dan and Lennox started together up the long slope of the ridge. Dan. It meant that possibly, if time remained, he would not turn out wilderness of endless, tree-clad ridges where Dan Failing had gone for is the time that the forest really comes to life--and Dan Failing, good, the mountain women know, when the snows come, to have a strong arm darkness; and Dan couldn''t get away from the idea that the codes of life As Dan was no longer stalking, Cranston immediately heard his step. When Dan Failing, riding like mad over the mountain trail, heard the Dan''s next thought was to follow along the trail and find Cranston''s


id: 35344
author: Nunn, Herbert
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  funds be set aside for engineering work handled by the State Highway State Highway Department has worked a rather large engineering force of those sections of State roads which are so located that the counties constructed at a total cost to State and Counties of $617,388.09. Of the structures paid for by the counties, the State Highway Department Roads and Rural Engineering, the State Highway Department simply The cost of work completed on the Columbia River Highway between Astoria COUNTY FUNDS EXPENDED BY STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT--DECEMBER 1, 1916 TO and the Lane County Line; and that the State would grade 12.8 miles During 1918 the State Highway Commission surveyed a six mile section of This County work was contracted under State Highway Department The work of the State Highway Department in Polk County during 1917 and The State Highway Department has made a location survey of 45.26 miles

title:
  Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918


id: 35992
title: Memoirs of Orange Jacobs
author: Jacobs, Orange
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  Every night a few, principally old men, would gather at Mr. Parker''s house, and when the door was closed and securely fastened, the two-days'' journey in the hills, finding grass, water and wood in great While out hunting the next day, I came upon the camp of a white man, and the surrounding country, stated the number of Indians residing man had taken possession of their country, had driven the game far away white man to the modes, habits of life and appearance of an Indian, is a At the time Mr. Harding was elected United States Senator for Oregon I it, said: "Judge, I think the Government can stand the increased was a plain man of the common people, came to my father''s house to see It is stated that an Indian chief said to the mountains, had several times started a large buck who passed down


id: 36746
title: The Mountains of Oregon
author: Steel, W. G. (William Gladstone)
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  began pouring over Llao rock, and falling to the lake two thousand feet GOAT MOUNTAIN.--Called Plas (long sound of a) by the Indians, meaning Called by the Indians Lou-wala-clough, meaning smoking mountain. This body shall be called the EXPLORATION DEPARTMENT OF THE OREGON in the Oregon Alpine Club, such person shall cease to be a member of discovered Bodega Bay in 38Â° 18''.--(History of Oregon,--Twiss, page 57). Mississippi River.--(Barrows'' Oregon, page 19). the entire coast of Oregon, discovered the Columbia river.--(History of 1805.--JOHN DAY RIVER.--Called by Lewis and Clarke, the Lepage.--(Pac. States, vol. Rocky Mountains.--(Burrow''s Oregon, page 54). See also page 53, Mountains of Oregon). See also page 53, Mountains of Oregon). 1869.--Known among Indians as Teekalet.--(Life on Puget Sound, page Oregon Territory,--Nicolay, page 53.--Vancouver, vol. 1842.--SADDLE MOUNTAIN.--Called by the Indians "Swallalahoost." Named by Wilkes, "Saddle Mountain."--(Oregon and Its Institutions,--Hines, page 1792.--SKAGIT HEAD.--Named by Vancouver.--(Life on Puget Sound, page


id: 38942
title: The Oregon Territory, Its History and Discovery
author: Twiss, Travers
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  Britain in respect of trade and settlements on the north-west coast of States continued to maintain, that Gray''s discovery of the Columbia river and the United States of America, in respect to the north-west coast of Nations.--United States.--Great Britain.--Kent''s Commentaries.--Mixed Great Britain and the United States, American citizens who held lands in The Treaty of Ghent, between Great Britain and the United States of Great Britain, in admitting the right of the United States to be the party settled_ between Great Britain and the United States." This treaty, citizens of the United States north of 51°, or by British subjects south through the proper claim of the United States by discovery and settlement, River.--Derivative Title of the United States from Spain.--Spanish Gray of the mouth of the Columbia River, the United States claim, "in Claims.--The United States.--Great Britain.--Rights supposed to be claim by discovery_, and the original title of the United States,


id: 38019
title: An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West
author: Rice, Alfred Ernest
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  "You are coming, too," said Mrs. Thorpe, turning to Hazel and Mr. Corway. Rutley and Mrs. Thorpe had scarcely gone when Hazel exclaimed: "Well! Mrs. Harris turned sharply and emphatically exclaimed: "Yes, Sam. In Hazel and Corway were following Rutley, when John Thorpe attracted the As Mr. Corway and Mrs. Harris passed down the steps, John Thorpe and Passing a few feet near them were John Thorpe and Mrs. Harris, who had lord approve the answer?" replied John Thorpe, eyeing Rutley Virginia and Mrs. Harris remained with Constance, but Rutley made it As Mr. Harris and the doctor left the room Sam stood for a moment in "Well, here comes Sam, and--and--yes, it''s Virginia Thorpe!" exclaimed Suddenly Sam became all attention, for he heard the voice of Mrs. Harris, who then reappeared with an open book in her hand. "Come on!" quietly exclaimed Sam Harris, who, with John Thorpe, stood


id: 41493
title: The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903
author: Oregon Historical Society
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  better work on the history of the United States, in volume IV of his [19] History of Oregon and Washington, Northwest Publishing Company, It is a general time of good health and spirits, in Oregon, northern most boundary of the Oregon Country and of the United States It was at this time that the Oregon country was coming prominently claim of the United States to the Oregon Country; and that, being in great need of new clothes, went back to Oregon City, and laws of the United States over all the people of Oregon Territory, and her History of the Early Indian Wars of Oregon, a volume which was The History of Oregon was also her work, a fact which has been known History of Oregon and her publication of two works on the Northwest History of the Early Indian Wars of Oregon, 318.


id: 32164
author: Putnam, George Palmer
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  [Illustration: The Columbia River Valley and Mount Adams CENTRAL OREGON TRAVEL IN THE OLD DAYS 38 "Come West, young man, and help the country grow." Oregon, stands close to where the Willamette, the river of our valley of outdoes Shasta and its snow-crowned neighbors of the old Oregon country The old Oregon, the Columbia of to-day, was the gateway to the Pacific journeyed easterly up the great river, whose water came from lakes of waters meet"--the two chief forks of the old Oregon River converge, the moving picture land--a region where the old West lives far woolier and [Illustration: Central Oregon travel in the old days] But to-day all of Central Oregon is not railroadless land, the trail of we who live in the Pacific Playland find mountain, forest and river, fly-fishing, mountaineering, and canoeing, the Pacific Coast is a region pleasant mountain land of Oregon. closer land of mountains and little-trodden trails.

title:
  In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making


id: 38774
title: Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers
author: Bulfinch, Thomas
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  Indian chiefs, several large tracts of land near Nootka Sound, for which he anchored at one o''clock in a large river of fresh water, ten miles half miles distance; a village on the north side of the river, this time, another chief, with a large party of white men, were waiting Indian who had straggled a short distance down the river returned, with within a distance of a mile and a half, a small river from the right. Shoshonee Indians fish; five days'' journey farther is a large river from all the forks, as well as on the main river, great numbers of Indians Nov. 4.--Next day, we landed on the left bank of the river, at a village Next day we passed the mouth of a large river, a hundred and fifty yards The water for a great distance off the mouth of the river appears very


id: 38607
title: A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information
author: Gray, W. H. (William Henry)
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  Treatment of Indians.--Influence of Hudson''s Bay Company.--Rev. Mr. brought to the Indian country by this same Hudson''s Bay Company, and Hudson''s Bay Company''s men; his caution prevailed; he was to let Dr. Whitman, or the mission party that might be sent across the mountains, the country by the Hudson''s Bay Company, or destroyed by the Indians. of the country.--The Salmon Indians.--The Hudson''s Bay Company''s "That d----d Indian, Lawyer," as the Hudson''s Bay Company''s men called Hudson''s Bay Company Indian traders Roman priests, Protestant a strong Hudson''s Bay Company Indian war influence against American the Hudson''s Bay Company''s people in encouraging the Indian country Indians toward the missionaries sent by the American Board of settler, the missions, the Hudson''s Bay Company, and some Indians were the Hudson''s Bay Company, the Indians, and the Whitman massacre. or Hudson''s Bay Company) in the country down to the present time.


id: 35288
title: Two Years in Oregon
author: Nash, Wallis
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  east--Lava-beds--Bunch-grass--The valleys in Eastern Oregon--Their Lands owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company--Monopoly Valley the land-office is at Oregon City, one of the most ancient towns river Yaquina comes down from a wild, rough valley to the right, to be Thirty years ago they were common along the Oregon sea-line; Lava-beds--Bunch-grass--The valleys in Eastern Oregon--Their products [Sidenote: _VALLEYS IN EASTERN OREGON._] Oregon, so far as I can learn), to build a road to open the plains of Oregon as a State voted Democratic for some years, and that party "Well, the old man used to go off for a week at a time to Oregon City settled up, the valleys, plains, and hill-sides of Eastern Oregon are of land--Corvallis--The line of the Oregon Pacific Railroad--Eugene, Portland--Development of the country--Prosperity--Counties of Oregon Portland--Development of the country--Prosperity--Counties of Oregon years ago when Congress granted the lands to the State of Oregon, and


id: 35378
title: The Strength of the Pines
author: Marshall, Edison
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  true that men did look twice at Bruce''s eyes, set in a brown, clean-cut Square House from whence Bruce had come had been a good place to learn "Men have been turned before, on trails like this," Simon told him. The face that showed so dimly in the shadowed room looked just as Bruce Bruce and Linda had a long talk while the sun climbed up over the great thing this Bruce will do," Simon had said, "is to hunt up Hudson--the Get the old man''s word that he''ll tell Bruce he never He opened his eyes and looked with some wonder into Bruce''s face. Bruce got up, a strange, cold light in his eyes. to-night Linda and old Elmira were sitting up, waiting for Bruce''s To Bruce and Linda, in the old Folger home in Trail''s Simon''s great hand reached to pin Bruce''s arm, and for the first time he


id: 45238
author: Wyeth, John B. (John Bound)
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  largest rivers in these rocky mountains.[42] It took us all day large body of horse made a fine appearance, especially their long next morning a number of us went back to the Indian fort, so called, the Rocky Mountains and the great river of the West, the case is far conduct of the horses--Killing a buffalo--Indian mode of Indians--Requisites of a mountain-man--Good fare, and adventure--An Indian horse-thief--Visit to the Snake camp-and our Indians have killed but two buffalo for several days. Early in the afternoon we passed a large party of white men, afterwards, Captain W., with three men, visited the Indians, _7th._--We frequently fall in with large bands of Indian horses. On the opposite side of the river there is a large Indian village, a small Indian trail on the river bank, which we followed in all We passed to-day several large lodges of Indians, from whom we

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  Wyeth''s Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey, 1832; and Townsend''s Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, 1834


id: 46906
title: Palmer''s Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846
author: Palmer, Joel
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  Mountains.[20] Our travel of to-day and yesterday is thirty-two miles, _July 4._ We traveled about fifteen miles to-day, the road generally and Bear rivers.[49] The left hand trail, which we took, twelve miles Green river near our camp, and passes over a high, barren country, to _July 25._ This day we traveled about sixteen miles, crossed the creek at the distance of twelve miles is the valley of Big Bear river. _July 31._ This day we traveled down Bear river fifteen miles. road strikes the river two miles from the foot of the mountain, at Big for a camp.[73] After seven miles travel we reached the river; but miles below Fort Hall, following the wagon road; but by crossing the _September 12._ This day we traveled about seven miles; the road runs packs.[202] We encamped two miles above Falls river, having traveled The other road crosses the river, follows up the bottom about ten miles,


