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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

1506—1792.

The Land of Mystery—The Proposition of Columbus—The Dreams of Navigators—The Fabled Strait of Anian—De Fuca's Pretended Discovery—Maldonado's Pretended Voyage—Low's Remarkable Map—Viscaino and Aguilar Reach the Oregon Coast in 1603—California an Island—Captain Cook's Voyage and Death—Beginning of the Fur Trade—Spain Drives England Out of Nootka Sound, and Then Makes Treaty of Joint Occupancy—Gray Discovers the Columbia River ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER II.

1634—1834.

The Landward Movement West—Two Differing Minds of Civilization, and Two Differing and Independent Movements of Population, Move Westward—The French Catholic on the One Side, and the English Protestant on the Other—La Salle, Hennepin, Marquette, Jonathan Carver, Mackenzie, Pike, Astor, Ashley, Bridger, Bonneville and Wyeth ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER III.

1774—1814.

The Evolutionary and Political Movements—The Pioneer American Pushing West—The Revolutionary Break-up—George Rogers Clark and Old Vincennes—Thomas Jefferson the Great Colonizer—The Lewis and Clark Expedition—and Capture of Old Astoria ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER IV.

The Antecedent Geological Preparation of the Country—The Native Indians—The Fur Trade and Traders—The Hudson Bay Company, McLoughlin, Ogden—Indian Ideas on Land Tenure—The Possession of the Land, the Bottom of All Troubles Between Whites and Indians ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER V.

1834—1842.

The Native Indian—How the Hudson Bay Company Managed Him—The Flathead Mission—The Era of Evangelism—The First Missionaries and Priests—Jason Lee, Marcus Whitman—Blanchet and De Smet—The Indian's Fate and Future—The "Jargon" Language ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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