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CHAPTER VI.

The Oregon Trail—What Started the Emigration—The Far-reaching Influence of the Movement—Lists of Emigrants—The Character of the Emigrants ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER VII.

1818—1844.

Joint Occupancy with England—Free Trade to Oregon—No Man's Land—The Hudson Bay Company Plays to the American Settlers—The Provisional Government ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER VIII.

1774—1846.

The Title to the Country—Titles by Discovery—Paper Titles of Spain, France and England—Title by Contiguous Settlement and Possession—The Question in Politics and in Congress—The Treason of President Polk—Oregon Saved by American Settlements ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER IX.

1842—1848.

The Oregon Hall of Fame—Who Saved Oregon, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Benton, Hall J. Kelley, Lee, Whitman, McLoughlin, Meek—Abernethy, Matthieu, Saved by All the Settlers Pulling Together ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER X.

1843—1847.

Founding a City—Hall Kelley's Plat—Precedent Efforts—Naming the Town — Rival Towns with Map—Deep Sea Navigation Controls Location—Tomahawk Claims—Townsite Titles—William Johnson Was Here First—First Houses—First Ships and Owners—Preachers, Teachers, Doctors, and Lawyers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER XI.

1847—1851.

The Townsite Proprietors—Map of the Claims—First Preachers—Gold Discovered in California— Teachers, Doctors and Lawyers—First Steamboats and Builders—First Stores and Shops—First Saw Mill—List of Those Persons Living Here in 1852—List of Old Pioneers Now Living (Nov. 10th, 1910) ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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CHAPTER XII.

1850—1868.

The First Ferry—The First Wagon Road —The First City Election—Land Titles, and Litigation Thereon—Judges, Matthew P. Deady and George H. Williams Decide the Laws Made by the Provisional Government Are Binding—The Public Levee—General Condition of the Country in 1856, by H. W. Scott, of the Advisory Board ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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