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he has a few months' leisure to make himself familiar with these men and the scenes of their exploits. The curious traveler may find in Oregon men who were with Sublette, Wyeth, and Bonneville, in the mountains; men who met there Stanley, the painter, Douglas, the botanist, Farnham, the would-be founder of a communist colony; who hunted beavers and Indians with Kit Carson; who laugh at Fremont as an explorer; who served Wilkes on his surveying expedition; who saw Oregon in danger of becoming an independent Government, but whose noble patriotism saved it to the Republic of the United States.
