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Clearwater River, branch of Snake River, Lewis and Clark embark at, 58; Lapwai Mission on, 122; gold mining on, 222; agriculture of, 229.

CcEur d'Alene Prairie, viewed by General Stevens, 221.

Colleges in the Northwest, 208 n.

Columbia, Boston ship on Northwest Coast, 22-24.

Columbia River, first seen by Heceta, 12; name "Oregon "applied to, 96; entered and named by Gray, 23; entered by Broughton for Vancouver, 23-4; explored by Lewis and Clark, 57-61; occupied by Astor party, 70-78; controlled by Northwest Company, 79; by Hudson Bay Company, 80 ff.; American traders visit, 107-113; missions planted on, 1 16-126; navigation of, 225.

Columbus, Ohio, Oregon agitation at, 146.

Colville, mining near, 222.

Commerce, growth of Industry and. Chap. XIX.

Compact, Government by, in Oregon, 162.

Cone, Reverend W. W., missionary, 137.

Constitutional Convention, in Oregon, 218.

Cook, Captain James, explores Northwest Coast en Third expedition, 13-14; originates Northwest and

China fur trade, 15-16. Inlet, or River, in Alaska,

15 Coos Bay, settlements begun at, 215; coal mining at, 215; railway to, 245.

Coppermine River, explored by Hearne, 12.

Coronado, 5.

Cortez, Hernando, explores Pacific Coast, 4, 5.

Coues, Dr. Elliott, historian, his muster roll of the Lewis and Clark party, 51 n.

Council Bluff, named by Lewis and Clark, 53.

Cowlitz River, avenue for trade to Puget Sound, 80.

iCox, Ross, "Adventures," etc., 78 n.

Cuadra, Bodega, Spanish navigator, explores Puget Sound waters, with Vancouver, 20.

Gushing, Caleb, reports on Oregon to Congress, 1839, 134.

Dakota, South, 7c.

Dalles of the Columbia, or Long Narrows, 58.

Darien, 12.

DesChutes River, Wyeth on, 112; railway along, 244; water power of, 281.

Dobbs, Arthur, eighteenth century English publicist, book on Hudson Bay prophesies British expansion in the Pacific, 8; urges finding of Northwest Passage, 9.

Donation Land Law, 253.