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FRENCH PRAIRIE.
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And there were those continuing in the service of the company who gave their names to localities—instance Cox, the Eumæus of Fort Vancouver and Sauvé, who kept the dairies on Wapato Island, afterward Sauvé Island.[1]
French Prairie.
French Prairie, the tract where the servants of the fur company began their planting in the Willamette
- ↑ The curious elements out of which new countries are colonized, and the varied character of the recipients of the Hudson's Bay Company's protection, are well illustrated by this same swineherd, whose name is given to Cox Plain, two miles below Fort Vancouver, where among the oaks that skirt the Columbia he lived with his herd. Cox was a native of the Hawaiian Islands, and had witnessed the death of Captain Cook. He afterward went to
