Category: Biographies
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
JOURNAL OF TRAVELS OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, TO THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER; MADE DURING THE YEARS 1845 AND 1846: containing minute descriptions of the Valleys of the Willam...
10. volume vi, p. 340, note 145.--ED.[95] For the location of these peaks see our volume vi, pp. 246, 248, notes 50 and 54 respectively. Lee's encampment was the place upon which Henry A. G. Lee had waited for the...
16. volume xxi, p. 297, note 82.--ED.[188] Colonel John McClure came to Oregon from New Orleans some time before 1842. In 1843 he settled at Astoria, where he had a cabin on the site of the first Astoria mill. He m...
9. volume xxviii, p. 303, note 179.--ED.[64] This attempt to deflect Oregon immigrants to California arose from the unsettled conditions in that Mexican province, and the determination of earlier American settlers to...
5. volume xiv, p. 185, note 154; also in our volume xxi, p. 142, note[20] For a biographical note on Colonel Stephen W. Kearny see our volume xvii, p. 12, note 4. In the summer of 1845 the general of the army ordered Kearny to take five companies...
12. volume xxi, p. 299, note 84. Matheny's Ferry is mentioned in note 147,[159] For Jason Lee see our volume xxi, p. 138, note 13. His first wife was Anna Maria Pitman, who came out from New York in 1837, the marriage taking place soon after her arriv...
4. volume xxi, p. 131, note 7.--ED.[8] Columbia and Rocheport are noted in our volume xxi, p. 133, note 8; Boonville, _ibid._, p. 89, note 59. Palmer probably crossed the Missouri at Boonville. Townsend went by a...
6. volume xxvii, p. 241, note 113.--ED.[45] The Wind River Mountains are noted in our volume xxi, p. 184, note 35. The trail along the Sweetwater is for the most part over a rough, undulating prairie, but at times th...
15. volume xxix, p. 57, note 74.--ED.[177] For Cape Disappointment and Baker's Bay see our volume vi, pp. 233, 234, notes 36, 38. Chinook Point was the site of a populous village of that tribe just west of Point El...
8. volume xxi, p. 197, note 43.--ED.[54] The divide between the waters of Green and Bear River may be crossed at several points. Its altitude is about eight thousand feet, and all travellers speak of the wide view...
13. volume xxix, p. 46, note 56. The trail into this region followed nearly[167] The Indians of Southern Oregon had always been disposed to molest white wayfarers. Witness the troubles of Jedidiah H. Smith in 1828, the massacre of the Turner family in...
14. volume xxix, p. 33, note 30.--ED.[172] On Tillamook Rock, a large boulder in the ocean, opposite Tillamook Head, a lighthouse was erected in 1879-81. It was a work of much difficulty, the engineers narrowly esc...
11. volume xxix, p. 179, note 75. The early meetings of the provisionalDr. Robert Newell was born in 1807 at Zanesville, Ohio. His fur-trapping experiences were under the auspices of the American Fur Company (not the Hudson's Bay Company), as compa...
7. volume xxvii, p. 299, note 156. His partner was Louis Vasques (notBascus), a Mexican who for many years had been a mountain man. For some time he was in partnership with Sublette in a trading post on the South Platte. About 1840 he entered int...
1. VOLUME XXXA 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...
17. volume xxix, p. 280, note 174.--ED.- The words 'Pa-pa' and 'Papa' have very different meanings. - The words 'Yamhill' and 'Yam-hill' are used in different contexts; therefore remain unchanged. - The words 'Ya-ka'...
3. volume v, p. 47, note 19.--ED.