CHAPTER XXI.

A new Start in Life--Mountain-Men for Pioneers--Discovery of the Columbia River--What Capt. Gray Did--What Vancouver Did--The United States' Claim to Oregon--First Missionaries to the Wallamet--John McLaughlin--Hospitalities of Fort Vancouver--The Mission Reinforced--Other Settlers in the Wallamet Valley--How they Regarded the Mission--The California Cattle Company--Distribution of Settlers, 264