The Emmons Journal
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vous,[1] and directly opposite Wyeth's old fort,[2] the place being now converted into a Dairy by the H. B. Co. where they have a large stock of cattle and horses and make butter for a foreign market.
N. B.—Lieut. Geo. Thornton Emmons, (now retired from active service), has kindly furnished this copy from his father's journal at the request of Mr. T. C. Elliott, who has prepared the explanatory notes. It is our hope and expectation to print in some later number of the Quarterly the remainder of the journal covering the overland journey of the party across Oregon and California to San Francisco.
The Editor.
- ↑ For earlier mention of this place see Journal of John Work in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 24, pp. 238-68. Here began the road used by traders and trappers and travelers from the Columbia river to California, overland.
- ↑ This assists in the identification of a very historic spot in Oregon where Nathaniel Wyeth, of Cambridge, Mass., established his Fort William in 1834 in opposition to the H. B. Company. He was afterward compelled to dispose of both property and business to the larger company, but at a very fair consideration.
