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the fur trade. W. H. Rees, in an address in OPA Transactions, 1879, page 23, gives the story of the name. The substance is that about 1821-22 Joseph Gervais and Etienne Lucier and their families were camped on the stream, which was called Hons-U-cha-chac, and in a period of severe weather had the good fortune to shoot some elk. The squaws immediately made a favorite French dish known as a blood pudding, which went a long way toward overcoming the discomfort of rain and snow. While this feast was being enjoyed, Gervais and Lucier christened the stream Riviere au Boudin, or Pudding River. See also Ten Years in Oregon, of Dr. Elijah White, page 70, by Miss A. J. Allen. Rees is doubtless right in his account of the origin of the name, but wrong about the date, for Alexander Henry mentions Pudding River in his diary on January 23, 1814. The river was probably named in 1812-13. See under GERVAIS. Pudding River appears on the Wilkes map of 1841. Another form of the Indian name was Anchiyoke River, which was used in the act of July 5, 1843, creating Champooick District. Early writings show different spellings. See Handbook of American Indians under the heading "Ahantchuyuk."

PUEBLO MOUNTAIN, Harney County. Pueblo Mountain is in the extreme south end of the county, south of Steens Mountain. It is named with the Spanish word for city or village. The name was applied in the early '60s by prospectors and miners from Nevada, and a news item in the Humboldt Register, Unionville, Nevada, December 5, 1863, copied from the Virginia City Union, attributes the discovery of the "Puebla" district to Major M. D. Harmon of Carson City. The form Puebla is the wrong gender for the Spanish word, and has been supplanted by Pueblo. In May, 1946, James F. Abel, then at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, sent the compiler a transcript of the item about Harmon, which will be found in OHQ, June, 1946, page 210. Mr. Abel concludes: "Puebla Mining District was in existence as early, at least, as the summer of 1863. It may have been established in 1862 but that is not probable. The district was believed to be in Nevada and is shown on Milleson's Map of the Reese River and Humboldt Silver Mines dated 1864. In reality the Territorial line ran south of or through it and all or most of it was in Oregon. Mentions of Puebla Mining District are numerous in 1864. Pueblo Mountain, Butte, Valley and City are shown with considerable accuracy on Lieutenant Colonel R. S. Williamson's map published in 1866."

PUGET Bar, Clatsop County. Puget Bar lies in the Columbia River east of Tenasillahe Island and west of Puget Island. Broughton discovered Puget Island on October 26, 1792, and named it for Lieutenant Peter Puget, and the name Puget has by custom become attached to the bar. Puget Island is in Washington. Tenasillahe Island is in Oregon. Lieutenant Peter Puget was a member of the Vancouver expedition and it was for him that Puget Sound in Washington was named. Not a great deal is known about Peter Puget, though diligent search has been made, particularly by Professor Edmond S. Meany of the University of Washington. He was lieutenant on Vancouver's sloop Discovery at the time Vancouver visited the Pacific Northwest. What is known about Puget is printed in Meany's Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound. See also British Columbia Coast Names, by John T. Walbran. Pulpit Rock, Wasco County. Pulpit Rock is a peculiar formation of