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 White, Capt. Lew, commands steamer Colonel Wright on trip up Columbia, 243-244;

launches steamer Forty-nine on Columbia, 245

Whitman, Dr. Marcus, entrance upon work for Oregon Indians, 145;

popularity with trappers, 146;

return to New York, 146;

marriage and return to Oregon, 147;

his appearance and character, 147;

getting waggon across continent, 150;

among Cayuses, 151;

conception of value of Oregon, 153;

journey in midwinter to St. Louis, 154;

helps organise immigration of 1843, 168;

guides immigrants, 171;

doctors Indians for measles, 205;

assassinated, 206;

connection with Dr. McLoughlin, 196

Whitman, Mrs. Narcissa, appearance and qualities, 147;

her death, 207

Whitman massacre, 206-208

Whitman College, 319

Whitman County, agricultural resources of, 316

White Salmon River and Valley, 338

Wilkes, Lieut. Chas., commands expedition to Columbia River, 165;

establishes idea of unity of Pacific Coast, 165;

assists in equipping schooner Star of Oregon, 160;

advice to settlers about a government, 190

Willamette River, scenery around mouth, 378;

tributaries and Valley, 380;

apostrophe to, by S. L. Simpson, 380

Willamette Valley, general view, 15

Willamette University grows out of mission to Indians, 143

Williams in the Steptoe retreat, 228

Windermere Lake, 280

Winship brothers, project for trading company on Columbia River, 109-113

Wishpoosh, the Beaver, Indian legend, 8

Wool, Gen. J. E., discord with Stevens, 222, 224

Wright, Colonel, campaign against Spokane Indians, 225, 229

Wyeth, Nathaniel, takes Methodist missionary party across continent in 1834, 141;

commendation by Lowell, 162;

plans great enterprise on Columbia, 162;

builds fort at mouth of Willamette, 163;

attracts attention to Oregon, 163

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