White, Capt. Lew, commands steamer Colonel Wright on trip up Columbia, 243-244;
launches steamer Forty-nine on Columbia, 245
Whitman, Dr. Marcus, entrance upon work for Oregon Indians, 145;
popularity with trappers, 146;
return to New York, 146;
marriage and return to Oregon, 147;
his appearance and character, 147;
getting waggon across continent, 150;
among Cayuses, 151;
conception of value of Oregon, 153;
journey in midwinter to St. Louis, 154;
helps organise immigration of 1843, 168;
guides immigrants, 171;
doctors Indians for measles, 205;
assassinated, 206;
connection with Dr. McLoughlin, 196
Whitman, Mrs. Narcissa, appearance and qualities, 147;
her death, 207
Whitman massacre, 206-208
Whitman College, 319
Whitman County, agricultural resources of, 316
White Salmon River and Valley, 338
Wilkes, Lieut. Chas., commands expedition to Columbia River, 165;
establishes idea of unity of Pacific Coast, 165;
assists in equipping schooner Star of Oregon, 160;
advice to settlers about a government, 190
Willamette River, scenery around mouth, 378;
tributaries and Valley, 380;
apostrophe to, by S. L. Simpson, 380
Willamette Valley, general view, 15
Willamette University grows out of mission to Indians, 143
Williams in the Steptoe retreat, 228
Windermere Lake, 280
Winship brothers, project for trading company on Columbia River, 109-113
Wishpoosh, the Beaver, Indian legend, 8
Wool, Gen. J. E., discord with Stevens, 222, 224
Wright, Colonel, campaign against Spokane Indians, 225, 229
Wyeth, Nathaniel, takes Methodist missionary party across continent in 1834, 141;
commendation by Lowell, 162;
plans great enterprise on Columbia, 162;
builds fort at mouth of Willamette, 163;
attracts attention to Oregon, 163
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