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• Title:John McLoughlin : patriarch of the Northwest / by Robert C. Johnson; jacket and chapter heading illustrations by Constance Cole.
  
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• Author/Creator:Johnson, Robert Cummings, 1864-1938.
  
• Published/Created:Portland, Ore. : Metropolitan Press, 1935.
  

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  • Call Number: F5820.1.M2 J6
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857.
  Hudson's Bay Company.
  Fur trade--Oregon.
  Oregon Territory--History.
  
• Edition:Oregon Journal ed.
  
• Description:302 p. : illus., maps, plates, ports. ; 21 cm.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes:Bibliography: page 297.
  
• Contents:Foreword / Leslie M. Scott, 1935
  Discovery and exploration of Oregon country
  Arrival of Simpson and McLoughlin at Astoria
  Description of Fort George and natives
  A new headquarters in sought and found
  Organization of brigades and their leaders
  Description of a more adequate headquarters
  Scene following the arrival of a brigade and the express
  How McLoughlin controlled the Indians
  Massacre of Jedediah Smith's party by Umpqua Indians
  McLoughlin as benevolent ruler and farmer
  Nathaniel Wyeth, American trader, enters the field unsuccessfully
  Traders are followed by the first missionaries
  Religious services and school at Vancouver
  McLoughlin encourages retired employes [employees] to become farmers
  Hall Jackson Kelley treated as an outcast
  Cattle provided Willamette settlers
  British colony north of Columbia River
  Methodist mission fosters nationalism
  First attempt to form government
  Local government of 1843 organized at Champoeg
  Controversy over McLoughlin's Oregon City claim
  Organization of an American emigrant train
  Crossing the plains
  Immigrants of 1843 complete journey
  Local government is made stable
  Treatment of Americans brings British criticism
  Relations of McLoughlin and Simpson reach climax
  McLoughlin resigns from Company's service
  How news of boundary settlement was received
  McLoughlin makes home at Oregon City
  From British subject to American citizen
  Further efforts of McLoughlin to recover land claim. Illustrations: Dr. McLoughlin
  Fort Vancouver in 1845
  Peter Skene Ogden
  Oregon City in the [Eighteen] Forties
  An Indian canoe tomb
  Jason Lee
  Methodist mission house
  Indian houses
  Indian buffalo hunt
  Indian warriors
  An Indian dance.