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Pacific Destiny and Bear Flag Rising

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by Dale L. Walker


  by Donner-Reed party

  suggested, in Stuart’s party

  canoes

  of French-Canadians, at New York City

  of Northwest Indians

  Canton (China)

  Cape Mendocino

  Carlos III (King of Spain)

  Carson, Alexander

  Carson, Christopher “Kit”

  duel between Shunar and

  in Frémont expeditions

  Carson Sink

  Carthage (Illinois)

  Carver, Jonathan

  Carver’s Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768

  Cascade Mountains

  Cass, Lewis

  Castor canadensis. See beaver

  Castor fiber

  Catherine II (Empress of Russia)

  Cathlamet Indians

  Cathlasko Indians

  Catholicism

  Catlin, George

  Cayuse Indians

  measles epidemic among

  “Cayuse War”

  Chagres River

  Champoeg (Oregon)

  Chandler, Bill

  Chandler, Jack

  Charles II (King of England)

  Chatham (armed tender)

  Chatillon, Henry

  Chehalem Indians

  Chemakane (Washington)

  Chesne, Henri de

  Cheyenne Indians

  Chiles, Joseph Ballinger

  Chimney Rock (Oregon Trail)

  Chinook Indians

  cholera

  Christian Advocate and Journal

  Cimarron River

  Clackama Indians

  Clark, William

  Indians seek Christian God from

  See also Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery

  Clarke, John

  Clatsop Indians

  Clay, Henry

  Clayoquot Sound

  Clearwater River

  Clive, Robert

  Clyman, James

  Coeur d’Alêne Indians

  Coles, John

  Colorado River

  Colter, John

  Columbia Rediviva (ship)

  Columbia River

  Astoria

  bar at entrance of

  Gray’s entry

  Thorn’s disaster at

  Wilkes’ loss of ship

  Lewis and Clark on

  naming of

  Oregon Trail emigrants’ passage of

  as suggested boundary between U.S. and Canada

  Colville Indians

  Comanche Indians

  Comcomly, Chief

  Comekela (Indian)

  Concise Account of North America (Rogers)

  Congregational missionaries

  Congress, U.S.

  Frémont’s Reports to

  Oregon Question in

  Oregon Trail and

  Thurston’s anti-McLoughlin land bill in

  Constitution, USS

  Continental Divide

  first wagons to cross

  first white women to cross

  Cook, James (“Captain Cook”)

  death of

  Coos Indians

  Cortés, Hernán

  Council Bluffs (Iowa)

  Courier (ship)

  Courthouse Rock (Oregon Trail)

  covered wagons. See wagons

  cows on the trail

  Craig, William

  Cree Indians

  Creek Indians

  Crooks, Ramsey

  later life of

  Crow Indians (Absaroka Indians)

  Cunningham, William H.

  Cushing, Caleb

  Daily Missouri Republican

  Dalles. See The Dalles rapids

  “dark horse,” first

  Dawson, Nicholas

  Day, John

  Dayton (Oregon)

  Day with the Cow Column, A (Applegate)

  Decatur, Stephen

  Democratic convention of 1844

  Derouin, François

  Deslauriers (general factotum)

  De Smet, Pierre-Jean

  Detroit Free Press

  Deuteronomy (book of the Bible)

  Devil’s Gate (Oregon Trail)

  De Voto, Bernard

  Dickens, Charles

  Dickerson, Mahlon

  Dickson, Joseph

  Discovery (Cook’s sloop)

  Discovery (Vancouver’s ship)

  disease. See also cholera

  dog-feast

  Dolly (schooner)

  Donner, George

  Donner, Jacob

  Donner, Tamsen

  Donner-Reed party

  Dorion, Pierre and Marguerite

  Douglas, Captain

  Douglas, James

  Drake, Sir Francis

  Dryad (ship)

  Duffin, Robert

  Eastham, E. L.

  Eddy, William

  Edinburgh Review

  Eells, Cushing

  elephant, “to see the”

  Elm Grove (near Independence)

  emigrant, definition of

  Emigrant Gap (Oregon Trail)

  Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (Hastings)

  Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography (Thrapp)

  English Chief

  Escaloom, “Frank”

  Farnham, Thomas Jefferson

  Felice (brig)

  Feltskog, E. N.

  Ferrelo, Bartolome

  ferries

  Ficklin, Orlando Bell

  “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”

  Figueroa, José

  First Organic Laws (Oregon)

  Fisk, Wilbur

  Fitzhugh’s Mill (near Independence)

  Fitzpatrick, Thomas (Broken Hand)

  Five Crows, Chief

  Flathead Indians

  Flathead post of Hudson’s Bay Company

  Fletcher, Francis

  Florence (Nebraska)

  Floyd, Charles

  Floyd, John

  Fontenelle, Lucien

  Forsyth, John A.

  Fort Astoria (Oregon)

  Beaver arrives at

  building of

  fortification of

  Hunt as factor-in-chief at

  loss of life at

  news of Tonquin massacre received at

  North West’s purchase of

  overland expedition to

  botanists included

  missing men found

  schooner launched by

  smallpox epidemic threatened by

  Stuart’s bringing of dispatches from

  U.S. government fails to support Astor’s reopening of

  War of 1812 and

  See also Fort George

  Fort Atkinson (Nebraska-Iowa border)

  Fort Boisé (in Snake River country)

  post traders at

  Fort Bridger

  Hastings Cutoff of Oregon Trail at

  post traders at

  Fort Chipewyan (Alberta)

  Fort Clatsop (Oregon)

  Fort Colville (British Columbia)

  Fort George (Oregon; formerly Fort Astoria)

  closing of

  McLoughlin as chief factor of

  Simpson’s 1824 visit to

  Fort Hall (on Portneuf River)

  California recommended to emigrants by

  post traders at

  Fort Laramie (Wyoming)

  description of

  1850 tally of travelers at

  Parkman in

  post traders at

  Fort Laramie National Historic Site

  Fort Leavenworth (Kansas)

  Fort Mandan (North Dakota)

  Fort Nez Percé (Fort Walla Walla, Washington)

  Fort Okanogan. See Okanogan River

  Fort Osage (on Missouri River)

  Fort Raymond (Manuel’s Fort, Montana)

  Fort Ross (California)

  Fort Stikine (Alaska)

  Fort Vancouver (Wash
ington)

  British officers’ visits to

  chaplain at. See Beaver, Herbert

  description of

  establishment of

  Hudson’s Bay Company’s closing of

  Kelley in

  McLoughlin as chief factor at

  missionary party at

  Parker at

  Wyeth in

  Fort Walla Walla. See Fort Nez Percé

  Foster, William

  Fox, John

  France

  Louisiana Purchase from

  Oregon coast exploration by

  Franchére, Gabriel

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Franzwa, Gregory W., The Oregon Trail Revisited

  Fraser River

  free land

  Frémont, Jessie Benton

  Frémont, John C.

  French and Indian War

  French-Canadian trappers (voyageurs)

  on overland expedition to Astoria

  on sea trip to Astoria

  French Prairie (Oregon)

  frontiersmen. See mountain men; trappers

  Fuca, Juan de

  fur trade

  Astor in

  decline along Columbia of

  by Hudson’s Bay Company

  in jointly occupied Oregon

  Lisa’s expeditions

  in Mississippi valley

  Rockies and

  Spanish-English conflict over

  Thorn’s attempt at

  See also beaver; sea otter; trappers

  Galaup, Jean de. See La Pérouse, Comte de

  Gallatin, Albert

  Gantt, John

  Gardner, Johnson

  George III (King of England)

  George IV (King of England)

  Gervais, Joseph

  Gila River

  Gilliland, Isaac

  Golden Hind

  Gold Rush

  Gordon, Sir John

  Grande Ronde River

  Grand Island (Nebraska)

  Graves, Elizabeth

  Graves, Franklin

  Gray, Robert

  Gray, William H.

  “Great American Desert”

  Great Basin

  Great Migration

  Great Plains

  Great Platte River Road, The (Mattes)

  Great Reinforcement

  Great Salt Desert

  Great Salt Lake

  Greeley, Horace

  Green River

  ferries across

  Sublette Cutoff at

  Gregg, Josiah

  Gros Ventre Indians

  Grover, Lafayette F.

  Hafen, Leroy

  Haida Indians

  Hakluyt’s Voyages

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hamilton (brig)

  Hancock, Forrest

  Harrison, William Henry

  Hartford Times

  Hastings, Lansford W.

  Hawaii (Sandwich Islands)

  Cook in

  Hunt’s sojourn in

  Thorn in

  Heçeta, Bruno de

  Heine, Heinrich

  hemp for wagon covers

  Henry, Andrew

  Henry’s Fort (Idaho)

  Henry the Navigator

  Heroux (murderer)

  Hill, Samuel

  Hinman, C. G.

  Hoback, John

  Hood’s Canal

  Horse Creek

  horses

  Hudson, Henry

  Hudson’s Bay Company

  American missionaries in Oregon as suspect by

  Astor and

  California recommended to emigrants by

  expeditions into U.S. by

  Kelley and

  main depot moved to Vancouver Island

  North West Company merged with

  Simpson of

  Thurston’s attacks on McLoughlin and

  Waiilatpu prisoners ransomed by

  Willamette government recognized by

  Willamette valley residents’ memorial against

  Wyeth and

  See also McLoughlin, John

  Humboldt River

  Hunt, Wilson Price

  as Astoria factor-in-chief

  final successful voyage of

  later life and death of

  as overland-expedition commander

  ice business, Wyeth in

  Ice Slough (Oregon Trail)

  Idaho

  Illinois Monthly Magazine

  Imperial Eagle (ship)

  Independence (Missouri)

  description of

  time to reach Pacific from

  Independence Rock (Oregon Trail)

  Indian Creek (near Independence)

  Indians

  aged left behind by

  alcohol in trade with

  Christianizing of

  end of way of life of

  Gray’s fights with

  of Great Plains

  “marriages” of traders with

  measles epidemic among

  of Northwest

  Palmer as Oregon superintendent of

  scalping by

  sign language of

  slaves held by

  Smith’s fights with

  Stuart’s encounters with

  wagon trains and

  in Willamette’s First Organic Laws

  See also specific tribes

  “Indian Sweat”

  Iphigenia (ship)

  Iroquois Indians

  Irving, Washington

  Astor-subsidized book by

  Isaac Todd (man-of-war)

  Isaiachakalis (Indian)

  Jackal (ship)

  Jackson, Andrew

  Nashville gunfight of

  Jackson, David

  Jail House Rock (Oregon Trail)

  Japan, first U.S. ship in

  Jefferson, Peter

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Ledyard and

  See also Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery

  Jesuit missions

  Jewitt, John R.

  Johnson, Richard M.

  Jones, Benjamin

  later life of

  Jones, John Paul

  Jones, Roger

  Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Parker)

  Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific, A (Ledyard)

  Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains (Palmer)

  Juan de Fuca Strait

  Canadian-U.S. boundary in

  Kalawatset Indians

  Kalispell Indians

  Kamehameha (King of Hawaii)

  Kamiah (Idaho)

  Kanesville (Iowa)

  Kansas City (Missouri). See Westport Landing

  Kansas Indians

  Kansas River (Kaw River)

  Kaw Indians

  Kearny, Stephen Watts

  Kelley, Hall J.

  background of

  Oregon trip of

  Kendrick, John

  Keseberg, Lewis

  Keyes, Sarah

  Kiamasumpkin (Indian)

  Kiowa Indians

  Klamath Lake

  Klamath River

  Klokamas (Indian)

  Knickerbocker Magazine

  Lady Washington (sloop)

  Lafayette, Marquis de

  Laframboise, Michel

  Lake Athabasca

  Lake Tahoe

  Lamanse (Indian interpreter)

  Lane, Joseph

  La Pérouse, Comte de (Jean de Galaup)

  Lapwai Mission (Idaho)

  LaRamee, Jacques

  Lark (ship)

  Larkin, Rachel Hobson Holmes

  Larkin, Thomas O.

  Lausanne (ship)

  Lavender, David

  Leavenworth, Henry

  LeClairc, François

  Ledyard, John

  Lee, Anne Maria Pitman

  Lee, Daniel

  Lee, Jason

  annexation petition presented to
Congress by

  Lewis, James

  Lewis, Joe (French-Canadian drifter)

  Lewis, Meriwether. See also Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery

  Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery

  Colter in

  interpreter of

  overland expedition and route of

  on Pacific Coast

  winter quarters of

  Liberty (Missouri)

  Liguest, Pierre de Laclède

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lincoln, Mary Todd

  Lincoln, Robert

  Linn, Lewis

  Linnaean Society of Liverpool

  Lisa, Manuel

  Little Sandy Creek

  Long, Stephen Harriman

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  López, Marcus

  Loriot (brig)

  Los Angeles (California)

  Louisiana Purchase

  in Adams-Onís Treaty

  Louis IX (King of France)

  Louis XVI (King of France)

  Lovejoy, A. L.

  Lutra enhydris marina. See sea otter

  Lydia (brig)

  Lyman, Horace S.

  Macao

  McClellan, Robert

  later life of

  McDonald, John

  McDougall, Duncan

  Astor’s later opinion of

  as Astor’s proxy

  Chinook wife of

  in command of Astoria

  as North West partner

  on voyage to Astoria

  McDuffie, George

  “Macedonian Cry”

  McKay, Alexander

  McKay, Thomas

  Mackenzie, Donald

  at Astoria

  on overland expedition

  Mackenzie, Sir Alexander

  Mackenzie River

  McKinley, Archibald

  McLeod, Alexander

  McLoughlin, Eloisa

  McLoughlin, John

  American spy utilized by

  Beaver the chaplain and

  as district attorney at Oregon City

  as Fort George’s chief factor

  as Fort Vancouver’s chief factor

  retirement

  Willamette government recognized

  hospitality of

  last days and death of

  Oregon cattle and

  Oregon City life of

  Simpson and

  Thurston’s attacks on

  Whitman warned about Cayuse by

  wife of

  McLoughlin, John, Jr., murder of

  McLoughlin, Marguérite Wadin McKay

  McTavish, Donald

  McTavish, John George

  Madison, James

  Mad River

  Magellan, Ferdinand

  Mandan Indians

  Manifest Destiny

  Manuel’s Fort (Fort Raymond, Montana)

  Maquinna

  Marcy, Randolph Barnes

  Marsh, John

  Marsh, William

  Martin, John

  Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens)

  Mattes, Merrill J.

  May Dacre (ship)

  Meares, John

  measles

  medicine

  bleeding in

  cholera treatment in

  on Oregon Trail

  Medicine Lodge Creek

  Meek, Helen

  Meek, Joseph Lafayette

  on mission to Polk

  and murder of Whitmans

  as U.S. Marshal

  Melville, Herman

  Mencken, Henry L.

  Mengarini, Gregory

  Methodists

  métis

  Mexico

  Kelley in

  war with

 

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