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Valley, 8; visits Tualatin plains, 8; high price of mechanics' labor causes ten of Shark's crew to desert, only two are returned, 8; sells Peacock's launch, 8-9; descends the Columbia, 9; suffers shipwreck in attempting to cross bar on Sept. iq, 9-10; puts up log houses for sheltering crew, 10-11; charters the Cadboro, 11-12; receives intelligence of Oregon treaty, Mexican war and occupation of California, 12; is pent up in Cadboro anchored in Baker's Bay from Nov. 17 to Jan. 18, 12-13; crosses bar and proceeds to California Jan. 18, 13; narrates role of Dr. John McLoughlin in Oregon, 21-3; comments on population and politics of Oregon, 21-35.
HOWISON, LIEUTENANT NEIL M., U. S. Navy, record of service of, 364-5.
Hudson's Bay Company, landed posses- sions and agricultural operations of,
(2) Hudson's Bay Company factors give Lieutenant Howison friendly and considerate relief, 10; accept bills on Baring & Bros, at par, 10.
(i) Hudson's Bay Company agents har- assed by intrusive Americans, 33-4.
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Idaho, gold discoveries cause organiza- tion of territory of, 61.
Indian agent's experience in the war of 1886, 65-7.
Indian population in Oregon, 1846, 46-8.
Indian uprising of 1886, the last in the Pacific Northwest, 65.
Linn City, founded by Robert Moore, 1843, 215.
Lmnton, 1846, 42; 215.
LOWNSDALE, DANIEL H., Letter by, to SAMUEL R. THURSTON, 213-49; bio- graphical data on, 215.
LOWNSDALE LETTER, historical import- ance of, 217; urges preference be given Americans in conflicting pre- emption rights, 218; old organic law of Oregon did not grant any right to soil, 218-19; suggests wording for land law, 219-221; custom house lo- cation, 221; resume of British opera- tions in Oregon country from author's point of view, 221-4; source of "nest- of-dangers" reputation of the mouth of the Columbia, 224-6; Commodore Wilkes and his officers "taken in" at Fort Vancouver, 226-9; how the "law- yer, the judge and the general with the helpers, the former legislators," were handled, 229-30; how the insur- gency of 1846 was subdued, 230-2; the terms of the treaty and the ownership of the Hudson's Bay Company station and mill at Oregon City, 232-3; the Indians used as pawns, 224-44; trust methods used by Hudson's Bay Com- pany authorities, 242-4; "friends at court" and delegate to Congress be- come the issue, 245-9.
LUPTON, fur trader, 251-258; his fort, 261.
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MCCARVER M. M., with Peter H. Bur- nett, selected site of Linnton, 215.
McCLURE, COLONEL JOHN, has pre-emp- tion claim to Point George, 12.
MCLOUGHLIN. DR. JOHN, role of, in Oregon narrated by Lieutenant Neil M. Howison, 21-3.
MCLOUGHLIN, DR. JOHN, cost of im- provements made by, at Willamette Falls to January i, 1851, 68-70.
Methodist missionaries in Oregon, 1846,
Milton laid off at mouth of Willamette,
216. Multnomah laid off below Linn City by
Hugh Burns, 215.
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Northern Pacific Railroad Company's transfer boat, the Frederick Billings, at Ainsworth on the Snake River and later at Pasco, 346-7.
OGDEN, PETER SKEEN, characterized by Lieutenant Neil M. Howison. 31-2.
Oregon, rapid development of, in early forties causes a statistical account two years old to be out of date, 9; winds and weather affecting conditions of navigation, 14-15; portions of occupied in 1846, 21 ; people of, in 1846, 21-6; political conditions in, 1846, 26-7; wretched plight of incoming pioneers soon relieved, 28-9; Hudson's Bay Company and missionaries, through credit given and assistance afforded, lighten hardships of pioneers, 29-30; company's officials seek political in- fluence through credit extended, 30-1; strong patriotic feeling among the Americans, 32-3; commerce in, 36-40.
Oregon in 1863, 61-4; population, 61-4; political directory of, 1863, 62-3; tax-
discoveries in,
able property in, 64.
Oregon, Eastern, gold di cause filling up of, 61.
Oregon City, 1846, 43; first place se- lected as townsite in Oregon, 215.
Oregon Defenses, 54-5.
Oregon flocks and herds, 1846, 52-3.
Oregon flora, 51.
Oregon meteorology, 50.
Oregon Steam Navigation Company makes effort in 1864 to take steamboat through Snake River canyon to ply between Old's Ferry and Boise, 339- 40.
OSBORN, BURR, SURVIVOR OF HOWISON EXPEDITION TO OREGON IN 1846, Rem- iniscences of experiences growing out of wrecking of United States schooner Shark at mouth of Columbia, 355-64.
Pacific City, laid off by Elijah White, 216.
Peacock's launch left by Captain Wilkes in charge of Dr. McLoughlin, sold by Lieutenant Howison, 8-9.
PITTOCK, HENRY L., part, of, in the up- building of the Oregonian, 204.
Portland, 1846, 42; claims to land on site of, 215; in 1862, 333.
