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INDEX

OGDEN, PETER SKENE, reminiscences of, by old folks on Colville and Spokane reservations, 25.

Okanogan country, geographical nomen- clature of, 32-3.

OKANOGAN, OLD FORT, AND THE OKAN- OGAN TRAIL, 1-38; incidents attending establishment of, 1811, 13-4; remod- elled and rebuilt, 1816, 19; becomes gateway for travel to and from New Caledonia, 19-20; a great horse ren- dezvous, 20; moved to Keremeos in British Columbia, 1860, 22; sources of history of, listed, 26-7; evidence of state of fort and date of abandonment of, 26-7; notables who have stopped over at, 28; causes of almost complete disappearance of traces of, 35-6; gen- eral bibliography of, 36-7; manuscript bibliography, 38.

Okanogan Trail, travel over and aban- donment of, by fur traders, 1848, 28- 9; use of, by Fraser river gold seek- ers, 29-30; course of trail, 33.

Old Oregon, first actual American oc- cupancy of, 1-2.

Oregon Constitutional Convention, 1857, biographical register of delegates to, 217-8.

Oregon mail facilities, mail route bids, 1849, 159; Rowland and Aspinwall steamers land Oregon mail at mouth of Klamath river, 166-7; mail steam- ers ordered to proceed to Astoria ^and to Nesqually, 170; need of provisions of mail carriage from Astoria to Ore- gon City, 177.

Oregon meetings in Iowa for organiz- ing emigration societies, 286-91; ad- vice to prospective emigrants to Ore- gon, 295-8.

Oregon slandered by article sent from Vancouver to Boston Courier, 165.

Oregon railroads, first schemes for, 222- 3; development of projects leading to building of Oregon and California R. R., 224-5; Ben Holladay, Oregon's first great railroad builder, 226; Hen- ry Villard, Oregon's greatest railroad builder, 226.

PALMER, JOEL, uses Okanogan and Fort Hope trails in 1858-9, 34; describes in Oregon Statesman of Feb. 14, 1860, trips over Okanogan trail in 1858 and 9, 34-5.

PRESBYTERIAN ISM, FIRST THINGS PER- TAINING TO ON THE PACIFIC COAST, 81-103; first church in the Pacific Northwest, 85-90; Clatsop Plains church, 94; Presbytery meets in Port- land, 96; organization of First Pres- byterian Church of Portland, 98-101; membership of when organized, 101; First Church reorganized, 102-3.

Priest Rapids named for Indian by Stewart party proceeding up Colum- bia, 1811, 12.

Printing press, first in Oregon, 90-1.

REID, WILLIAM, has charge of narrow gauge Scotch road (Portland-Airlie, VVest Side and Portland-Coburg, East Side), 226-8; is made president of Astoria and South Coast R. R., 230; connections with Yaquina line and projects from Albany and from Salem planned, but all fell through, 230-1 ; arrangements with Huntington seemed almost complete, but not ratified and the Astoria and South Coast project halts, 231-2; loses heavily in the col- lapse, 232-3; turns to English cap- italists for financing proposed Port- land, Salem and Astoria railway, but does not succeed, 233 ; last effort to build on Nehalem route to Astoria and death, 240.

Scotch, two classes of, in fur trade, 277-8.

SHERIDAN, PHILIP, his life and services at Forts Yamhill and Hoskins, 65-6; his delight in Chinook, 67.

SIMPSON, SAMUEL L., personal reminis- cences of (W. W. Fidler), 264-76; biographical sketch of (Geo. H. Himes), 276.

Spokane, Fort, post of Pacific Fur Com- pany alongside Spokane House, 16.

Spokane House, post of Northwest Com- pany, 4.

STEVENSON, ROBERT, describes conditions at Fort Okanogan in 1860, 22-3.

STUART, DAVID, leads Astoria party up the Columbia, 1811, for establishment of Old Fort Okanogan, 4-15; proceeds to Astoria and returns to Fort Okan- ogan in summer, 1812, 15; establishes Kamloops post, 16-7; sets out with Ross from Ckanogan to Walla Walla, 1813, 16; arrives at Astoria to join in council of partners, June, 1813, 17.

STUART, ROBERT, leads party of Astori- ans with supplies to Fort Okanogan, IS-

STICKEEN, A TRAGEDY ON THE, IN 1842, 126-32.

THOMPSON, DAVID, journal of, 39-63; an account of the circumstances bring- ing out the fact of the existence of the journal, and of the securing of a transcript of it, 39-40; some explan- ations to aid in the understanding of the journal. 41-2; description of a meeting Simpoil Indians, 44-7; enter- tained by Nespalenv chief and tribe, 49-50; Methow Indians met, 51-2.

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