Illustrated History of Lane County, OregonPrinting House of A.G. Walling, 1884 - 508 pages |
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acres American Applegate April arrived August band born Bristow California camp Captain Charles chief Children claim Coast Fork Columbia command Cottage Grove creek crossed the plains deceased dollars east elected erected Eugene City expedition explorations farm farmer feet fire furs George hostile Hudson's Bay Company hundred Illinois Indians J. R. Campbell James John Joseph Junction City June killed land Lane county Lieutenant located March married Mary McKenzie McKenzie river miles mill mission Missouri mountains natives Nootka Nootka sound northwest Northwest Company November October officers Pacific party passed peace Pleasant Hill Port Orford portion possession post-office precinct reached resides returned Rogue river sailed savages September settled settlement settlers Siuslaw Skinner Smith Spain spring Springfield Straits stream street territory thence Thomas thousand took town trade tribes Umpqua Vancouver vessels volunteers voyage Walla whites Willamette river Willamette valley William wounded
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Page 383 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 383 - And he said, What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength : a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 83 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 383 - And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother ? And he said, I know not : Am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Page 49 - Killistinocs,] together with my own observations I have learned that the four most capital rivers on the continent of North America — viz., the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the River Bourbon, and the Oregon, or River of the West, (as I hinted in my introduction) — have their sources in the same neighborhood.
Page 340 - I do not like thee, Doctor Fell; The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know and know full well. I do not like thee. Doctor Fell!
Page 87 - America, did penetrate the same by the way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, to the discharge of the latter into the Pacific ocean, where they arrived on the 14th day of November, 1805, and departed the 23d day of March, 1806, on their return to the United States, by the same route by which they had come out...
Page 110 - ... by the same name that to [them shall or may appertain to do ; and that they and their successors by the name of " The Governor and Company of Adventurers...
Page 24 - Latitude, he entered thereinto, sailing therein more than twenty days, and found that Land trending still sometime North-west and North-east, and North, and also East and South-eastward, and very much broader Sea then was at the said entrance, and that he passed by divers Islands in the sailing.
Page 363 - That the freemen of every town, or the major part of them, shall only have power to dispose of their own lands, and woods, with all the privileges and appurtenances of...