The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . ner story of action and initiative than those which enroll the names ofMcLoughlin, the great Companys autocratic governor, not unfitly calledthe father of Oregon, and Whitman, the martyr, with the frontier leaderswho fashioned the first ship of state launched in the Northwest, and theircontemporaries, the men who built the first towns, roads, schools, mills,steamboats and railways. Macaulay tells us that a people who are not proud of their forebearswill never deserve the pride of their descendents. The makers of Old O
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . ner story of action and initiative than those which enroll the names ofMcLoughlin, the great Companys autocratic governor, not unfitly calledthe father of Oregon, and Whitman, the martyr, with the frontier leaderswho fashioned the first ship of state launched in the Northwest, and theircontemporaries, the men who built the first towns, roads, schools, mills,steamboats and railways. Macaulay tells us that a people who are not proud of their forebearswill never deserve the pride of their descendents. The makers of Old Oregonincluded as fair a proportion of patriots and heroes as the immigrants of theMayflower. We who journey up or down the Columbia in a luxurioussteamer, or ride in a train de luxe along its banks, are the heirs of theirachievement. Honor to the dirt-tanned ox-drivers who seized for them-selves and us this empire of the river and its guardian snow-peaks! A lordly river, broad and deep,With mountains for its neighbors, and in viewOf distant mountains and their snowy
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