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 McKenzie started with William W. Matthews and five or six men as hunters, to make an excursion up the Willamette. How long this party remained is only a matter of conjecture, as we have no record of the trip, its duration, or the amount of territory covered. We only know that McKenzie went up the Willamette till he reached its East fork, which is now called the McKenzie River.

He returned, however, before June 29 or 30, 1812, for on one of these dates he set out for the Snake River, where he established a post near the mouth of the Payette, which was later called Fort Boise.