Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 17/Index

INDEX

INDEX TO VOLUME XVII

American settlers have meeting to or- ganize a government. Canadians re- fuse to take part, 234.

Applegate, Jesse, offer of, to endow a Baptist school of "academical grade," 465-6.

Astoria, prediction for future of, by Rev. Ezra Fisher, 1847, 56-7.

Astorians, returning party of, in 1812, pass through or near South Pass,

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Black, Captain W., report of his taking charge of Astoria and rechristening it Fort George, Dec. 13, 1813, 147-8; crestfallen at losing a valuable prize and disgusted at insignificance of post, 147.

Bush, George Washington, sketch of his coming to Oregon and settling on Bush Prairie, 111-2.

Corvallis, referred to as Marysville and

described, 1852, 457-8. Coues, Elliott, on discovery of South

Pass, 48-9. Crate, W. H., millwright in charge of

sawmill above Fort Vancouver, 2

no match

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219. Crooks, Ramsay, letter of, 50-1; saves

life of John Day, 373.

DAY, JOHN, LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

OF, 373-9- Day, John, Irving's characterization of, 3-73; starts with Robert Stuart to recross plains, 1812, becomes deranged on Wapato Island and is returned to Astoria, 374; not mentioned again un- til 1824, 374; later references to and mystery connected with Irving's un- founded report of his dying within a year after his return to Astoria, 1812, 375-6.

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Fremont, Lieutenant John C., leaves Oregon, Nov. 13, 1842, 234.

FISHER, REVEREND EZRA, CORRESPOND- ENCE, 55-76; 147-176; 267-339; 43.1- 480; reasons for moving from Astoria to Clatsop Plains, 56; predictions for mouth of Columbia as site of port, 56-7, 65, 154-5; regrets necessity of engaging in secular pursuits, 57-8;

Roman Catholic missionary re-enforce- ments expected, 58; activity for tem- perance pledges, 59; an itemized re- quisition for fitting out an Oregon family, 1847, 61-2; denominational ac- tivities in the Willamette Valley, 63-*; report of activities for the quarter, 64-5; description of physical condi- tions in Oregon, 68-9; arrival of im- migrants, 1847, 71; salary of himself and colleague increased to $200 each, 72; quarterly report of labors, 73-4; the Whitman tragedy and war with the Cayuse tribe, 75-6; the tardiness of the national government in afford- ing protection and needed laws and administration to the Oregon com- munity deplored, 150-1; lack of com- petition in the mercantile trade, 154; the harbor within the mouth of the Columbia one of "easiest of access and safest in all North America," 154; the formative period of Oregon now and in "a few coming years," 155; a consignment of family supplies ordered, 157-8; the Willamette Bap- tist Association organized, consisting of five churches, June 23 and 24, 1848, 159; reported discovery of gold in California and exodus of more than half of the men of Oregon, 160-1; re- ports of labors in the Clatsop field, 162-5; suggests change of field of labor from stationary Oregon to Cal- ifornia that swarms with people and where the opportunities are giyen over into the hands of the "prince of devils," 168-70; urges the founding of a denominational school, 173-6; visited "Oregon University," 272; visits the "Oregon Orphan Asylum, the fore- runner of Pacific University," 274; effects on Oregon of mining excite- ment in California, 276-7; writes from California mines, 279-80; conditions in San Francisco, and California gen- erally, described, 281-4; Baptist edu- . cational institution located on the east bank of the Willamette, eight miles above the mouth of the Calapooia, 289; engages in teaching at Oregon City, 295-7; high cost of living in Oregon, 297, 300; different schools at Oregon City, 309-10; list of bill of goods, 319-20; advice to those who would cross the plains, 332-3; contem- plates preaching in Portland, 433; Ore- gon conditions with the labor force largely in California mines, 433; ar- rival of immigration of 1851, 443; "bird's eye view" of the Willamette

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and the Umpqua Valleys with refer- ence to their needs of missionary la- borers, 446-9; Portland described,

1851, 449-50; Baptist churches in the upper Willamette Valley, 1852, 454-5; a trip from Champoeg to Sodaville,

1852, 462-3; conditions in the Umpqua Valley, 1852, 464-5; receives Jesse Applegate's offer to endow a Baptist school of "academical grade," 465; high cost of living in Oregon in 1852, 475-6.

GILLIAM, REMINISCENCES OF MRS. FRANK COLLINS, NEE MARTHA ELIZA- BETH GILLIAM, 358-72, experiences of her mother attacked by Indians in Tennessee, 358-9; her father serves in Black Hawk war and a captain in Seminole war, 359; Cornelius Gilliam as a preacher, 359-60; made the gen- eral of the organized migration of 1844, 360; learning to read under the conditions of early Oregon, 361-2; opening roads in early Oregon, 362-3; mail service, 362-3; the financing of the Cayuse war, 363-4; military opera- tions and the accidental shooting of Colonel Gilliam, 364-5; his heirs lose his land claim, 365-6; farming in Ore- gon by the folks left at home during the California gold mining excitement, 366-7; the soldier lovers of the In- dian girls, 367-8; tender relations be- tween Indian and white children, 368; Indim medical practices, 368-9; real- istic picture of the administration of justice in early Oregon, 370-2.

Grant, returns of, in charge of the H. B. Co. post, 223.

Greeley, Horace, in the Republican Na- tional convention, 1860, as a delegate from Oregon, 201-14.

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HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY CONTRACT, A, 5 2 '3-

Hudson's Bay Company profits in Ore- gon, 215.

Immigrants of 1843, location of, in Ore- gon, 234-

Indian trouble at Oregon City, George W. Le Breton killed, 237.

INDIAN OF THE NORTHWEST AS RE- VEALED BY THE EARLIEST JOURNALS, 1-43; misleading concepts of, 2; his- torical records that give true view of at first contact with whites, 2-4; cere- mony of, receiving a stranger, 4-6; attitude of Indians toward whites at first that of admiration, 6-8; their generosity and great civility, 8-n; misunderstanding plays large part in inimical cases, 11-13; the five cases of first contact resulting in fatalities, 13-18; ideas of religion and future life and their exnressinn thrnncrli

music, 19-23; their honesty and faith- fulness, 25-8; disposition to steal, 28; governmental authority among them, 28-31; held slaves, 31-2; their tools and implements, 32-3; family life among them, 33-5; strong on bathing, 35-6; few vices among, 36; white man in- troduces drunkenness, 37; the vicious along the Columbia from The Dalles to the Cascades, 37-8.

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KINCAID, H. R., EXTRACTS FROM THE UNPUBLISHED REMINISCENCES or. 77- 1 06; recollections of the Presidential election campaigns of 1840 and 1844, 77-8; early imbued with faith in uni- versal salvation, 78; early experiences as a wage earner in Lafayette, Indi- ana, 1851-2, 78-9; migrates to Oregon, 1853, 79! starts for mines in Southern Oregon and California, 79; visit to Crescent City, San Francisco and Sac- ramento City, 79-80; returns to family home southeast of Eugene. 80; starts for World's Fair, Paris, 1866, 80; proceeds to Washington via Panama, 80; sightseeing in New York and Washington, 81; acquaintance with C. P. Huntington, 81; sightseeing in Boston, 82; distributes and preserves files of the Oregon State Journal, 82; experiences in steamboat ride on the Hudson, 82-3; recollecti9ns as dele- gate to National Republican conven- tions of 1868 and 1872, 83-4; com- ment on Wendell Phillins' lecture on the "Lost Arts," 84-5; scenes at pro- ceedings for impeachment of Presi- dent Andrew Johnson, 85-6; trial of Johnson and estimate of him, 87-8; characterizations of the leading U. S. Senators of that day, 88-90; as a worker for the election of John H. Mitchell as Senator from Oregon, 1872, 90-1; part in securing the loca- tion of the State University at Eugene, 91-2; the Hayes-Tilden con- test and decision of it by the elec- toral commission, 92-4; an account of the Webster-Haynes debate, 95-6; fa- naticism of Charles Sumner, 96; Ros- coe Conkling referred to, 97; recol- lections of Russell Sage, 97-8; Mrs. Lord's pioneering for the flax indus- try in Oregon, 98-9; political troubles as champion of the free coinage of silver, 99-104; kept from being made regent of the University of Oregon, 104-6.

KLAMATH EXPLORING EXPEDITION, 1850, THE, 341-57; mouth of Rogue River mistaken for the Klamath, 341; disas- ter suffered in examining the entrance to mouth of Rogue river, 343-5; the river disappoints the explorers, 346-8; coast to the south and to the north explored for larger river and Indians found treacherous, 348-54; proceed by vessel to the mouth of the Umpqua,

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354-5; meet Messrs. Scott, Butler and Sloane of Elk river settlement, 355; explore the Umpqua to Fort Umpqua and to the ferry at the crossing of the Oregon and California road, 356-7.

Laframboise, Michael, insubordination in his party on California expedition, 223.

Laramie's Fork, source of name of, 129.

Lee, Anna Maria Pitmann, Jason Lee's first and succeeding impressions of, 408-9; the wedding day events, 410-2; her poetic responses recorded, 410, 4I4-5-

LEE, JASON, DIARY OF, 116-146; 240- 266; 397-430; incidents while at Lib- erty and Independence, Mo., prelim- inary to starting across the plains with the second Wyeth expedition, 116-7; crossing the south fork of the Platte, 126; pass Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff, comments on how the latter received its name, 128-129; crosses Laramie's Fork and statement of reputed source of its name, 129; camps at Independence Rock, 132; crosses the divide at South Pass with- out comment, 134-5; treated with un- expected civility by Captain Wm. Sub- lette at the Rendezvous, 138; much encouraged through the welcome re- ceived from the Nez Perces and Flat Head Indians at the Rendezvous, 138- 40; finds some praying and singing, 140; the white trappers celebrate the fourth of July, 142-3; the Soda Springs described, 144-5; is presented with two "beautiful white horses" by Indians when about ready to leave Fort Hall, 242; passes American Falls, 243; witnesses a betrothal between an Indian girl and Captain McKay, 249; comments on exceedingly generous treatment from Captain McKay, 250- i; Daniel Lee and he each receives as presents an "elegant horse" in re- turn for writing name, date and work on scrap of paper, 255; dines with Captain Bonneville, 255; arrives at Fort Walla Walla, 257; receives every possible attention while at the Fort, 258; at The Dalles, 260; arrives at Fort Vancouver and enjoys fine hos- pitality of Dr. McLoughlin, 262; ar- rives at Canadian settlement anJ meets Gervais and Solomon Howard Smith, 264; mind is much exercised with question of choice of location, 265; starts with outfit for Champoeg, 400; makes ox yoke and becomes ab- sorbed generally with task of getting established in new home, 401-2; the conditions that compelled a trip back to the East, 404-5; a record of remin- iscences and impressions of Miss Pit- mann, whom h was to learn to lore and whom he did wed, 405-16. LINCOLN, OREGON'S NOMINATION OF, 201-

214; through Horace Greeley Oregon plays great role in a momentous polit- ical gathering, 201; conditions that led to proxy being sent to Greeley by an Oregon delegate, 202-4; Greeley's statement of Oregon's choices for can- didate, 205; the balloting that re- sulted in the nomination of Lincoln, 205-7; Greeley, as member of commit- tee on platform, 207; Eli Thayer holding a proxy from Oregon, 209; nature and proof of Greeley's pur- poses in the convention, 209-14.

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McKay's, Thos., place at Scappoose, 397.

MacKenzie, Donald, references to fur trading connections of, and to his pos- session of John Day's will, 375-9-

MCLOUGHLIN, DR. JOHN, LETTER OF, TO SIR GEORGE SIMPSON, 215-39; personal relations between Dr. McLoughlin and Sir George Simpson, differences of business judgment, 216-8; friendship to Americans had nothing to do with resignation of, 216; reply to reported complaints of ill usage of employees in his Department, 219-20; complains that men sent to Department are unfit for boutes, 220; animadverts against Simpson's disposition of murderers of his (McLoughlin's) son, 221-2; denies that rivals have been successful in trade, 222; the affairs of the Califor- nia expedition, 222-3; comment on the organization of the California expedi- tion, 223-4; condition of labor force at Fort Vancouver, 224-5; data per- taining to productions and organiza- tion at Fort Vancouver, 214-7; denial of right to grant passage to visitors on Company's boats protested, 228-30; record of matters of moment trans- piring in the Oregon country in 1842 and 1843, 230-9; Department accounts for 1842 and 1843, 238.

MINTO, JOHN, A TRIBUTE TO, 44-6.

PACIFIC COAST REPUBLIC, THE MOVE- MENT IN OREGON FOR THE E^TABLISH- MENT OF A, 177-220; frontier condi- tions develop disposition to assert lo- cal independence, 177-9; displacement of Democratic by Whig territorial of- ficials causes political strife, 180-1; re- ception of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, 181-2; an independent Pacific Coast government suggested, adversely com- mented on and outline of plan ex- posed, 183-8; preparation for State- hood, the constitutional convention and disposition of the issue of slavery, 188-90; suspicion aroused against Jo- seph Lane, the Territorial delegate to Congress, 190-2; conditions that caused opposition to the admission of Oregon among both Republicans and Democrats, 193-4; Oregon politics and the nomination of the Democratic

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Presidential candidate in 1860, 195-6; formation of Pacific Coast republic broached, advocated and opposed, 196- 8; Lincoln carries Oregon and Union- ist Senators are elected by the Legis- lature, 198-9. Portland of 1851, described, 449-50.

Raymond, Henry J., rivalry between, and Horace Greeley figures in Repub- lican national convention of 1860, 210-4.

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Scott's Bluff, source of name of, 128-9.

Sex equality in Oregon, 44-5.

SLAVERY IN OREGON, SOME DOCUMENT- ARY RECORDS OF, 107-15; document of manumission in county records at Hillsboro, 105; another in Clark county records at Vancouver, 106-8; Judge George H. Williams decides in case of Robbins v. Ford that slav- ery could not legally exist in Oregon, 108-9; text of acts in regard to slavery and free negroes and mulattoes intro- duced by Peter H. Burnett, 1844, 109- ii; Thomas H. Benton writes in 1847 on how the slavery question delayed

the organization by Congress of Ore- gon Territory, 112-3; action of consti- tutional convention, 1857, and result of vote 'thereon, 113-5.

Smith, Solomon Howard, teaching half- breed children at Canadian settlement, 264.

Soda Springs described, 144-5.

South Pass, discovery of, 47-51.

Spaulding, Captain, prejudices Ameri- cans against H. B. Co. officials, 234.

Thompson, Darid, opposes the bringing of alcohol across the Rocky Moun- tains, 37.

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White, Dr. Elijah, in his dealings with the Indians as Sub-Indian Agent of the United States is to receive no recognition from the Hudson's Bay Company authorities, 232-3.

WRIGHT_, I^LIHU, LETTERS OF, TO His BROTHER, SAMUEL WRIGHT, 380-96; the grandsons in Portland, 380; ex- periences taking a whale, 381-2; sail- ing around Cape Horn, 384; a sailor's description of Hawaiian Islanders, 392.

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