Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of OregonA. H. Clark Company, 1907 - 301 halaman McLoughlin came from Riviere du Loup in Quebec and worked his way up through the Hudson's Bay Company until he alone was responsible for that great chunk of continent known as the Pacific Northwest, and the help and support he offered the American emigrants to the Oregon Country in the critical years 1843-1846. |
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... become a short history . For the benefit of those interested in Dr. John McLoughlin and the history of early Oregon , I have added notes and many documents . The lat- ter show some of the sources from which I have drawn , but only some ...
... become a short history . For the benefit of those interested in Dr. John McLoughlin and the history of early Oregon , I have added notes and many documents . The lat- ter show some of the sources from which I have drawn , but only some ...
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... become a civilized country , especially where there was easy access to the ocean . Thus early he saw that what is now called Western Ore- gon was bound to be a populous country . It was merely a question of time . It was evidently with ...
... become a civilized country , especially where there was easy access to the ocean . Thus early he saw that what is now called Western Ore- gon was bound to be a populous country . It was merely a question of time . It was evidently with ...
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... become settlers , he kept them nominally on the books of the Hudson's Bay Company as its servants . He made it a rule to allow none of these servants to become settlers unless he possessed fifty pounds sterling to start with . He loaned ...
... become settlers , he kept them nominally on the books of the Hudson's Bay Company as its servants . He made it a rule to allow none of these servants to become settlers unless he possessed fifty pounds sterling to start with . He loaned ...
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... becoming vagabonds . It was liable to be danger- ous for white men to join Indian tribes and become leaders . With great wisdom and humanity he made them settlers , which gave them every induce- ment to be industrious and to be law ...
... becoming vagabonds . It was liable to be danger- ous for white men to join Indian tribes and become leaders . With great wisdom and humanity he made them settlers , which gave them every induce- ment to be industrious and to be law ...
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... become , for those days , a rich man , his salary was twelve thousand dollars a year , and his expenses were compara- tively small . He was then fifty - six years old . He had prepared to end his days in Oregon on his land claim . His ...
... become , for those days , a rich man , his salary was twelve thousand dollars a year , and his expenses were compara- tively small . He was then fifty - six years old . He had prepared to end his days in Oregon on his land claim . His ...
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Halaman 171 - October, 1818, it is agreed, that, " any country that may be claimed by either party, on the Northwest Coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years, from the date of the signature of the convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects, of the two powers...
Halaman 172 - October, 1818, hereby continued in force, shall be construed to impair, or in any manner affect, the claims which either of the contracting parties may have to any part of the country westward of the Stony or Rocky Mountains.
Halaman 172 - Art. 2. It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties, in case either should think fit, at any time after the 20th of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this convention ; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice.
Halaman 200 - W. X., his executors, administrators or assigns ; for which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents.
Halaman 199 - To have and to hold the same, together with all and singular the appurtenances...
Halaman 172 - Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 20th of October. 1818, shall be, and they are hereby, further indefinitely extended and continued in force, in the same manner as if all the provisions of the said Article were herein specifically recited.
Halaman 213 - Waller, has taken formal measures at Washington to substantiate his claim as a preemptor and actual settler upon the tract of land, sometimes called the Wallamet Falls settlement and sometimes Oregon City, comprising six hundred and forty acres; and being aware that, although a foreigner, you claim to exercise acts of ownership over said land, this notice is given to apprise you that all sales you may make of lots or other subdivisions of said farm, after the receipt hereof, will be regarded by my...
Halaman 295 - 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. Edited with Historical, Geographical, Ethnological, and Bibliographical Notes, and Introductions and Index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.
Halaman 152 - American demagogues have been base enough to assert that I had caused American citizens to be massacred by hundreds by the savages. I, who saved all I could. I have been represented by the Delegate from Oregon, the late SR Thurston, as doing all I could to prevent the settling...
Halaman 55 - Willamette, and after dinner embarked in one of the Company's boats, kindly manned for us by Dr. McLoughlin, who has treated us with the utmost politeness, attention and liberality. The gentlemen of the fort accompanied us to the boat and most heartily wished us great success in our enterprise. Arrived at the lower mouth of the Willamette where Capt. Wyeth's brig is, late in the evening.