INDEX Laurel Hill (Barlow Road) experiences, 294. Lausanne party, 97-8. LEE, JASON, as Oregon messenger in 1838, 349-50. Lincoln's majority in Oregon in 1004, Liquor in early Oregon, 279-80. Loyal League in Oregon, 23-6 (See Union League.) LUCIER, ETIENNE, credit due to, for voting in favor of a provisional government, 116-7. M MCCORNACK, ELLEN CONDON, GLIMPSE INTO PREHISTORIC OREGON, 3-13. MACDONALD, FiNAN, commands Snake country expedition, 79. MACKENZIE, DONALD, and his four years of work developing the fur trade of 'the Snake country, 75. Mail, Oregon, routes, 1845-7, 355-7- Mail, Oregon, service, xmsatisfactory to general public, 1883, 360. MALONE, PATRICK, as editor of Cor- vallie Union represents "copperhead democracy," 19. MATTHIEU, FRANCOIS XAVIER, last sur- vivor of May meeting, 1843, 119-20. MEEK, JOSEPH L., special messenger to Washington to implore aid against Indians in Cayuse War, 1847, 353-4- MITCHELL, JOHN H., elected president of senate and started long political career, 34. N "National Union Convention" and its Oregon contingent, 52. NESMITH, JAMES W., gives Lincoln administration good support, 33; pre- fers McClellan in 1864, 35; on Ore- gon political situation in 1866, 49-50; crushed "between upper and nether" political millstone, 57-9. NESMITH LETTER, 1845, 379-82. Nursery business in early Oregon, 276- OGDEN, PETER SKENE, operations of, in the Snake Country, 79-83. O'MEARA, leader of "Oregon copper- heads," 1863, 23; insisted on remain- ing unreconstructed, 40. Oregon, Barlow's narrative of trip across plains to, 251-74. Oregon City in 1846, 278-9; 281. Oregon constitution, vote on adoption of, 69. Oregon in age of ice and period fol- lowing, 6-8; fauna and flora of in prehistoric times, 9-10; human life in prehistoric, 10-13. Oregon governmental authority during period of joint occupancy, 140-1; need of more efficient legal machin- ery in, seriously felt, 142-3; develop- ment of movement for organization, 143-52. Oregon newspapers suppressed as trea- sonable, 21. Oregon, population of, in 1840-1, 104- 5; in 1849, 136. Oregon railroads, 360. Oregon Country, boundary of, 89; dis- covery, early exploration of and oc- cupation of, 90-1; joint occupancy of, 91-2. OREGON TERRITORY, How BRITISH AND AMERICAN SUBJECTS UNITE IN A COMMON GOVERNMENT IN 1844, 140- 59- OREGON TRAIL, THE EARLIEST TRAVEL- ERS ON THE, 71-84; development of, 83-4; marking of in Nebraska, 87. Oregonian, contends that republicans were greatly in the majority in the Union party, 27-8; takes congres- sional attitude in reconstruction, 40- 3; straddles negro suffrage issue, 44; at issue with Statesman in contending that it represented real Union party in Oregon, 46; true exponent of Union party, 55; comments on efforts to commit Oregon democrats to John- son, 56. Pacific Mail Steamship Company fails to observe regulations or contracts in carrying Oregon mail, 358. Pacific Republic, plotters for a, wait for Confederate success and are cause of retention of troops in Northwest, 21-2. Panama railroad as link in rail route to Oregon, 359. Pioneer reunion, fortieth, 225-6 PITTOCK, H. L., Union party nominee for state printer, 30. Political confusion and realignment after death of President Lincoln, 38-9- Pony express, 360-2. Presidential campaign of 1864 in Ore- gon, 35. PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, A BRIEF HIS- TORY OF THE, AND WHAT CAUSED ITS FORMATION, 89-139. Provisional Government, reasons for forming, 98-104; opposition to, 106-9; March meeting preliminary to, 109- 10 ; May meeting preliminary to, 110- 3 ; names of persons voting on the organization of 114-6; land laws of, 123-4; work of 1843, 117-8; of 1844, 124-6; organic law of 1845, 126-30; Hudson's Bay Company and the, 130-5; summary and conclusion, 137- 9; memorial to Congress, June 28, T 845, 351-2; creates Post Office De- partment, Dec. 23, 1845 R RAMSAY the Indian pilot, 74. REED, JOHN, 74; 233. Santa Fe Trail, marking of, in Kansas, 87. SCOTT, HARVEY W., begins career as editor of Oregonian and serves as [392]
