History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington; embracing an account of the original discoveries on the Pacific coast of North America, and a description of the conquest, settlement and subjugation of the original territory of Oregon; also interesting biographies of the earliest settlers and more prominent men and women of the Pacific Northwest, including a descripiton of the climate, soil, productions of Oregon and Washington . PORTLAND,OR. D. PORTLAND, ,OR. JUDGE THOMAS ,SALEM,OR. I Fremonts second expedition.
History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington; embracing an account of the original discoveries on the Pacific coast of North America, and a description of the conquest, settlement and subjugation of the original territory of Oregon; also interesting biographies of the earliest settlers and more prominent men and women of the Pacific Northwest, including a descripiton of the climate, soil, productions of Oregon and Washington . PORTLAND,OR. D. PORTLAND, ,OR. JUDGE THOMAS ,SALEM,OR. I Fremonts second expedition. 261 reached the Dalles in the rear of our emigration. His outfit contained all of theconveniences and luxuries that a government appropriation could procure, while he roughed it in a covered carriage, surrounded by servants paid from the public returned to the States, and was afterwards rewarded with a presidential nomination asthe Pathfinder. The path he found was made b}^ the hard}- frontiersman, who precededhim to the Pacific, and who stood b}- their rifles here, and held the country against hostileIndians and British threats, without government aid or recognition until 1849, when thefirst government troops came to our relief. Yet Fremont, with many people, has thecredit of finding everything west of the Rocky Mountains ; and I suppose his pretensionswill be recognized by the future historian, while the deserving men who made the path,unaided b}- the government, will be forgotten. I i
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