Page:Oregon Historical Quarterly volume 23.djvu/426



INDEX

the Methodist Episcopal church, 231-2; Jason Lee and other members of his party join Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth's overland expedition, 232; journal entries covering the trip from Independence to Fort Hall, 232-3; from Fort Hall in company with Thomas McKay and Captain Stewart to Walla Walla, 233; receives presents of horses from Cayuse Indians, 233; on board Hudson's Bay Company's boats proceeds to Fort Vancouver, 233- 4 ; mission house first occupied and experiences while it was in prepara- tion, 235; Indian children taken into mission, 235-6-7-8-9-42; gathering of first crops, 237; Indian youths at mission die, 237-9-41-6-7-53-4-5-8; Indian pupils leave mission, 239-43; rumor that Indian tarrying at mission planned to kill Daniel Lee and Cyrus Shepard, 238; fall wheat sowing, 239; potato digging finished, 240; daily in- struction of children at mission and of neighbors' children begun, 240; work of year and condition of mission sum- marized, 241 ; temperance society formed, 242; contributions received from the Hawaiian Islands and from Dr. John McLoughlin and other gen- tlemen at Fort Vancouver, 242-3; a Cayuse Indian bringing two sons and accompanied by two other Indians visit mission and request missionaries to settle among them, the boys remain, 244-5; the arrival of Dr. Whitman and wife and Rev. Spalding and wife and Mr. Gray at Walla Walla learned, 245-6; events of the closing year re- viewed, 247-8; the temperance society intercedes with Young and Carmichael to relinquish their project to establish a distillery, offering to reimburse them for expenditures incurred in the pro- ject, 248-50; reply of Young and Car- michael agreeing to stop preparations, but refusing to accept sum to reim- burse, 250-1; William A. Slacum at the mission and an expedition to pro- ceed to California for a supply of cat- tle organized, 251; Slacum in leaving the Columbia river in Brig Loriot com- pliments the mission, 252-3; reinforce- ments arrive, 255-6; marriage of Ja- son Lee and Anna Maria Pitman, Cy- rus Shepard and Susan Downing, and Charles Roe and Nancy, 256; Messrs. J. Lee and C. Shepard and wives visit the shores of the Pacific, 257; news from the cattle company, 258; annual meeting of the temperance society, 258; Jason Lee explores the Umpqua country, 258; new station at The Dalles (Wascopam) resolved upon, 259; Mrs. Jason Lee gives birth to son and dies, 259-60; sickness at Wascopam and accident to party re- turning on the Columbia river, 260-1; reinforcements arrive for the Presby- terian mission, 261-2; Dr. Whitman visits the Willamette mission, 262; Captain Sutter visits the Willamette

mission, 263; list of marriages, 1835-8, 263-4; list of individuals admitted to mission family with tribal connection and dates of admission and departure or death specified, 264-6.

N

Nuttall, Thomas, visits a few weeks at the Methodist mission, 237.

Ordway, John, Letter of, to His Parents,

268-9.

Oregon Caves, History of the Discovery of the Marble Halls of Oregon, 274-6.

Oregon Caves, An Account of the First Attempt at Exploration of the, 270-3.

Oregon Mission See Willamette Mission.

Oregon Mission Press, The History of the, 39-52, 95-110; American mission- aries to the Nez Perces first thought that it would be unnecessary to re- duce their language to writing but that they would acquire the English, 39; soon realizing their mistake, pro- ceeded to study native language and reduce it to writing, 39-40; Rev. Spalding devises alphabet using Eng- lish consonants for some of the vowel sounds, 39-41; prepares a spelling book and requests the Hawaiian mis- sion to print, this not carried out, 41- 50; offer of Hawaiian mission printing outfit accepted, 42; Edwin Oscar Hall, a printer, sent from Hawaiian Islands to set up printing establishment and to instruct in printing, 42; press and outfit described, 43; motive for Hall's trip found partly in desire to improve Mrs. Hall's health, 42-3; expense met with a subscription by the native women of a Honolulu congregation, 43-5; the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Hall, 44-5; the 8-page book in the Spalding alphabet used in binding the 20 -page book in the Pickering alphabet, 45-7; story of the Pickering alphabet and its adoption, 48; assignments in book- writing and reviewing, 48; the return of the Halls to Honolulu, 49; A. B. Smith and Cornelius Rogers collabo- rate in the preparation of the second book, 49-53; assignments of work on manuscript for books made at Clear- water, Sept., 1839, 95-6; repair of press and printing of book in Flathead language, 96-7; authorship of this book, 97-8; the book of laws, 98-9; hymn book printed, 99; translation of the Gospel of Matthew and vocabu- lary, 99-100; inventories of stock of books and of printing office, 100; as- signments and work on translations, 100-2; reprinting of Spalding's Gospel of Matthew, 102-3; linguistic abilities of different members of the mission, 103-4; evidence and argument pertain- ing to misconception that the pioneer press in Oregon was also the original Hawaiian Mission press, 104-9; Eell's final history of the press, 109-10.

[376]