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to learn the difference between men trained to subserviency, and the quick reasoning and alert independence of the Americans, who though sometimes dressed in skins possessed the faculty of making themselves masters of whatsoever destiny fortune laid upon them.[1]
- ↑ The authorites from which this chapter has been drawn, besides those already quoted, are Or. Pioneer Assoc., Trans., 1875, 61; Evans' Address, in Or. Pioneer Assoc., Trans., 1877, 32; Brown's Willamette Valley, MS., 31; Atkinson's Or. Colonists, 3, 4; Or. Spectator, May 12, 1847; Grover's Or . Archives, 5–7; Deady's Hist. Or., MS., 14, 74; Thornton's Oregon Hist., MS., 6; Evans' Hist Or., MS., 265–71; Matthieu's Refugee, MS., 19; Marysville Appeal, Nov. 4, 1865; Burnett's Recollections, MS., i. 184; Strong's Hist. Or., MS., 61; Grover's Pub. Life, MS., 23–5; J. Q. Thornton, in Or. Pioneer Assoc., Trans., 1874, 70; Burnett, in Niles' Register, lxviii. 393.
