Category: Travel Writing
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and...
2. Part II of Farnham’s Travels in the Great Western Prairies,TRAVELS IN THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES, THE ANAHUAC AND ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND IN THE OREGON COUNTRY [Part II, being chapter v of Volume II of the London edition, 1843.] _Thomas Je...
3. PART II OF FARNHAM’S TRAVELS IN THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES, ETC., OCTOBER4. CHAPTER V[1Departure from Vancouver—Wappatoo Island—The Willamette River—Its Mouth—The Mountains—Falls—River above the Falls—Arrival at the Lower Settlement—A Kentuckian—Mr. Johnson and hi...
5. volume xxviii, p. 32, note 8), who named it Santa Rosalia. Captain John[32] In re-naming the Presidents’ Range there appears to have been considerable confusion in assigning the name of the first executive. Kelley intended the name to be given to M...
6. volume vi, p. 348, note 156. For the post of that name see our volumevii, p. 210, note 71. The small post was maintained on Kootenai River for nearly half a century. In 1854 it was reported as an inferior station, in charge of a Canadian as trade...
7. volume vi, p. 338, notes 141, 142.—ED.[56] Klamath River rises in southern Oregon, in the county of the same name, flows through Klamath lakes and breaks through the barrier of the Cascades about on the California b...
8. volume vi, pp. 379-381, particularly notes 195, 199.—ED.[63] This lease was the result of a protest from Great Britain to the government of Russia for the attack by the latter upon a British brig entering the Stikeen River to found a...
9. volume xxviii, p. 321, note 199; Fort Colville in De Smet’s _Letters_,[79] Usually known as Fort Umpqua, this post was founded in 1832 by John McLeod, being situated about forty miles up the Umpqua River, on the south bank, on a small prairie of a...
10. volume xxviii, p. 321, note 199, and Palmer’s _Journal_ in our volumeKamia was a mission established at the mouth of a stream of that name, now called Lawyer’s Cañon Creek. Here Rev. Asa B. Smith labored for two years (1839-41) among the upper Ne...
11. volume xxvii, p. 386, note 203; on Provencher, _ibid._, p. 391, note[123] The Methodist here mentioned was Jason Lee, who went out in 1833; see our volume xxi, p. 138, note 13. The Episcopalian clergyman was Rev. Herbert Beaver, who was sent as...
12. volume xxi, p. 352, note 125; De Smet’s _Letters_, our volume xxvii, p.[137] This was known as the “great re-inforcement,” and was secured by Jason Lee on his return to the United States in 1838-39. The bark “Lausanne” was chartered, and inducement...
13. volume vi, p. 260, note 71; and Townsend’s _Narrative_, in our volume[142] Of the Catholic mission at Penn’s cove, between Whitby’s Island and the main, Mr. Wilkes says: “It (the island) is in possession of the Sacket tribe, who have here a perma...
14. volume xxi, p. 361, note 130.—ED.[175] This was the building on the site of the present city of Salem, which was erected in 1842 by Jason Lee for the Indian mission school formerly conducted in a log house twel...
15. volume xxvii, p. 193, note 69.—ED.[178] The mission or residence at this point was known as St. Francis Xavier. The convent was, however, entitled St. Mary’s or Notre Dame, from the convent at Namur, whence the...
16. volume xxvii, p. 337, note 172. The location of the Bay of the Pend[184] This stream, now known as St. Regis Borgia, is a tributary of the Missoula from the west. Rising in Bitterroot Mountains it flows slightly south of east through a fertile...
17. volume xxvii, p. 307, note 160. Consult G. M. Dawson “The ShuswapPeople,” in Royal Society of Canada _Transactions_, ix, part ii, pp. 3-44; A. G. Morice, “The Western Dénés” in Canadian Institute _Proceedings_, 3d series, vol. 7, pp. 109-120;...
18. volume ii, p. 168, note 75.—ED.[200] The Flatbows (Arcs à plats), in the use made of the term by De Smet, signify that branch of the Kutenai stock that is now known as the Lower Kutenai; by “Kootenay” the aut...
19. volume xxvii, pp. 373-377.—ED.[203] These officers were Captain Henry J. Warre, nephew and aide-de-camp of Sir R. Downer Jackson, commandant of British forces in North America, and Lieutenant M. Vavasour of...
20. volume xxiii, p. 138, note 114.—ED.[314] The route lay almost directly north from the Yellowstone, along the valley of what is now Shield’s River (named by Lewis and Clark for one of their party), toward the sour...
21. volume xxiii, p. 58, note 33.—ED.[318] For this stream see our volume xxiii, p. 70, note 51. The camp was probably upon one of the western affluents of the Judith, on the eastern edge of the Little Belt Mountai...