. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . est Company,through the treacheryof Astors British partners, becoming possessed of his trading posts onthe Columbia River, obtained control of the country for trading pur-poses, and being finally merged in the Hudsons Bay Company retainedthis control for a period of ten years under the sanction of thetreaty of 1818, which left the boundary question in an unsettled con-dition and permitted the sub
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . est Company,through the treacheryof Astors British partners, becoming possessed of his trading posts onthe Columbia River, obtained control of the country for trading pur-poses, and being finally merged in the Hudsons Bay Company retainedthis control for a period of ten years under the sanction of thetreaty of 1818, which left the boundary question in an unsettled con-dition and permitted the subjects of each country to hunt, fish and tradewest of the Rocky Mountains for that length of time. ECHOES FROM THE KOOKY MOUNTAINS. 655 A diplomatic struggle now began for the settlement of the bound-ary question. The claim of Great Britain by discovery rested upon alio-ht foundation. It embraced the fact that Sir Thomas Drake hadseen the coast in 1580; that Cook had examined it slightly in 1778;and that Vancouver much more thoroughly in 1793. All of these,however, were but re-discoveries. The claim was further based upon•the trading posts established in the Oregon country by the fur traders,. PB«^ fa G^TS** RIVAL FUR TRADERS. but these were matters of private employment for temporary purposes,and no attempt was made at permanent settlement south of latitudeforty-nine. The claim of the United States was based upon the Spanish titleacquired through purchase from France, which perhaps alone would nothave proved sufficient to establish the validity of the claim. But itwas further substantiated by the right of discovery founded upon thevoyage of Gray and the expeditions of Lewis and Clarke. On the C5G ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. strength of Grays discovery, the United States claimed ali the terri-tory drained by the Columbia Eiver. As a question of internationallaw the title thus acquired might not have been tenable. Added tothis, however, were the subsequent explorations by
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