INDEX
THOMPSON, DAVID, in his supposed race to beat the Astoria Expedition to the mouth of the Columbia, 3-6; at As- toria, 1811, 6; record of trip down the Columbia, 1811, 8-12; his ac- count of Astoria, in 1811; autobiogra- phy of, 104; completes exploration and survey of entire length of Colum- bia River from source to mouth be- tween April and October, 1811, 124; journal of disproves conclusion that he was instructed to anticipate arrival of the Astor or Pacific Fur Company's expedition at mouth of Columbia to establish trading post, 125. trading operations of, from Kootenay House as base, 1807, 244-5; at Kullyspell House, 1808-9, 246: at Saleesh House, 1809-10, 247.
THURSTON, SAMUEL ROYAL, diary of, . 153-^05; territorial vote at time of his election, 153; biographical sketch of, 153-4; some territorial finances of 1849, 156-8; wregon mail route bids, 159; how Oregon mail carried by nowland and Aspinwall came to be landed at the mouth of Klamath river, 166-7; mail steamers ordered to touch at Astoria and Nesqually, 170; an article in the Boston Courier slander- ing Oregon, 165; the Oregon City claim, 189-90; on the diversion of the overland route from Oregon to Cali- fornia, 198; Asahel Bush interested in Oregon, 199-202; Thurston has a dream that is prophetic, 201-2; at work on donation land law bill and its consideration by committee, 203.
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ViLLARD, HENRY, Oregon's greatest rail- road builder, 226: blocks narrow-gauge
Central Pacific for Reno-Eugene-Port- land-Astoria route, 227-8; his resour- ces exhausted in 1883, 228; Astoria takes reprisal in pressing for repeal of railroad land grant, 229; visits As- toria as guest of Hammond, 240.
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WHITMAN, DR. MARCUS, as a Presby- terian, 82-4; his ride across the con- tinent, 91-2; Applegate on Whitman, 93-
Whitman and Spalding missions, 85.
Whitman massacre, 94.
WILMOT Proviso, "THE BARGAIN OF 1844," as the origin of, 137-46; origin due to the breaking of bargain of 1844, 138.
WILSON, MRS. ELIZABETH MILLAR, father of, requests information about Ore- gon from Thurston, 190.
Winships attempt of, to erect trading station on the Columbia, 1810, 1-2, 949.
Women, first white in Oregon, 94-5.
WORK, JOHN, journals of, the most valu- able original sources of the history of Fort Okanogan, 26.
WRIGHT, GENERAL GEORGE, on national crisis because of relations between North and South in 1861, 133-5.
Yamhill, Fort (Grande Ronde Military Block House), 63-70; Sheridan, Rus- sell, Hazen and others in command of at different times, 65-6.
