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Causes of the Indian Outbreak— Discovery of Gold near Fort Colville — Yakimas Hostile — Expeditions of Major O. C Haller into the Snake and Yakima Countries — Yakima Campaign of 1855 — Movement of Troops on the Sound — Attack on Seattle — War Vessels on the Sound — Walla Walla Campaign of the Oregon Volunteers — Operations of the Second Oregon Regiment — Attack on the Cascades — Colonel Cornelius Returns to Portland 108

Action of the Governor — Disposition of Forces — New Battalions — Plan of Campaign — Battle of White River — On the Sound — Martial Law — Fighting at John Day River and Grand Rond — East of the Cas- cade Range — Stevens in the Hostile Country — Failure of his Council — Lechi's Betrayal, Arrest, Trials, and Execution — Assassination of Quiemuth — Termination of Hostilities on the Sound — Result — War Debt — Clarke and Wright's Campaign — Defeat of Steptoe — Battles of Four Lakes and Spokane Plains in the Yakima Country — Walla Walla Country Reopened 157

Party Politics — Election of Delegate — Martial Law — Stevens Chosen Delegate — Death of Stevens — His Character — Governor McMullin — Fraser River Mining Excitement — Its Effect on Washington — Ser- vices of Secretary Mason — Governor Gholson — Henry M; McGill — The Capital Question — The University — Governor Wallace — Gover- nor Pickering — The Custom-house Controversy — Inundation of Port Angeles 201

Organization of the First Washington Infantry— Companies from California—Gold Discoveries — Military Road— Fraser River Travel— Colville Mines— The Malheur Country— The Similkameen Mines- American Miners in British Columbia — Gold Discoveries on the Clearwater— On Snake River — Protest of the Nez Percys — Pierce City