item: #1 of 9
          id: 14355
      author: Hough, Emerson
       title: 54-40 or Fight
        date: None
       words: 90187
      flesch: 89
     summary: It is not Mr. Calhoun; it is not I. Mr. Calhoun only puts before you the summons of-- Of what? I had never seen Mr. Calhoun so intent, so absorbed.
    keywords: america; answer; baroness; calhoun; chief; come; country; course; day; doctor; door; elisabeth; england; eyes; face; friend; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; helena; iss; john; lady; life; look; madam; men; mexico; monsieur; new; night; oregon; pakenham; people; polk; ritz; room; sir; texas; things; think; thought; time; van; von; war; washington; way; white; woman; world
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        item: #2 of 9
          id: 14881
      author: Butterworth, Hezekiah
       title: The Log School-House on the Columbia
        date: None
       words: 46789
      flesch: 86
     summary: He accepted the latter for his work's sake, and returned to his old friends a loving letter and an old poem, and with the latter we will leave this picture of old times on the Oregon: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound; Content to breathe his native air On his own ground. The North Puyallup Glacier, Mount Tacoma In the midst of this interview Mrs. Woods appeared at the door of the cabin A. E. Pope The eagle soared away in the blue heavens, and the flag streamed after him in his talons E.J.
    keywords: air; away; bear; benjamin; boston; boy; chief; columbia; day; eagle; face; father; good; gretchen; heart; home; house; indian; life; mann; master; mother; mrs; music; new; night; oregon; people; river; saw; school; spirit; sun; time; umatilla; whitman; woods; work; world; young
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        item: #3 of 9
          id: 15911
      author: Franchère, Gabriel
       title: Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
        date: None
       words: 66607
      flesch: 65
     summary: It is a classic term that calls to our mind rough Captain _Thorn's_ sailor-like contempt for his literary passengers so comically described by Mr. _ The rock which here arrests the course of the _Ottawa_, extends from shore to shore, and so completely cuts off the waters, that at the time we passed none was seen falling over, but sinking by subterranean channels, or fissures in the rock, it boiled up below, from seven or eight different openings, not unlike water in a huge caldron, whence the first explorers of the country gave it the name of _Chaudière_ or Caldron falls.
    keywords: astoria; bay; board; boat; canoes; captain; chapter; columbia; company; country; course; day; days; establishment; evening; feet; fish; fort; gentlemen; good; house; hunt; indians; islands; lake; left; little; man; men; messrs; miles; morning; mountains; natives; new; night; northwest; number; party; people; place; point; provisions; return; river; saw; sea; ship; small; stuart; time; use; vessel; village; water; wind; york
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        item: #4 of 9
          id: 36146
      author: Holman, Frederick V.
       title: Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon
        date: None
       words: 78556
      flesch: 69
     summary: For convenience I shall hereinafter speak of John McLoughlin, the younger, as Dr. John McLoughlin, or Dr. McLoughlin. The original daguerreotype belongs to Mrs. Josiah Myrick of Portland, Oregon, a granddaughter of Dr. McLoughlin._] DR.
    keywords: abernethy; american; bay; bay company; british; chief; claim; columbia; company; congress; document; fort; good; government; history; hudson; immigrants; indians; island; john mcloughlin; land; land claim; law; lee; letter; lots; man; mcloughlin; methodist; mission; missionaries; oregon; oregon city; oregon country; oregon pioneer; rev; right; river; settlement; settlers; states; territory; thurston; time; united; vancouver; waller; willamette; years
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        item: #5 of 9
          id: 38607
      author: Gray, W. H. (William Henry)
       title: A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information
        date: None
       words: 275605
      flesch: 60
     summary: By the third article of the convention between the United States and Great Britain, signed October 20, 1818, it is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two powers; it being well understood that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other power or state to any part of the said country; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences among themselves. The three Japanese were taken to England, and, during their stay, learned the English language, were sent back to Macao, and became the assistant teachers of Mr. Gutzlaff, the English missionary at that place, and were the means of opening their _own_ country to missionary and commercial relations with other nations.
    keywords: account; agent; american; bay company; bishop; board; british; brouillet; captain; case; catholic; cattle; cayuses; chapter; chief; children; citizens; claim; columbia; committee; country; course; day; days; doctor; douglas; early; english; fact; following; fort; french; fur company; general; good; government; governor; gray; great; half; head; hines; history; horses; house; hudson; indians; influence; james; john; land; laws; lee; left; legislative; letter; little; long; manner; mclaughlin; means; meeting; men; methodist; miles; mission; missionaries; missionary; mountains; mrs; new; nez; number; object; order; oregon; page; party; people; place; policy; power; present; priests; property; question; report; rev; right; river; settlement; settlers; sir; smith; spalding; statement; states; station; subject; territory; time; trade; united; vancouver; wallamet; wallawalla; war; way; white; whitman; wife; years; young
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        item: #6 of 9
          id: 38942
      author: Twiss, Travers
       title: The Oregon Territory, Its History and Discovery
        date: None
       words: 107746
      flesch: 47
     summary: As the earlier sheets, however, were passing through the press, one or two remarks have been inserted which have a bearing on the recent correspondence; but it should be observed, that a separate review of each negotiation was designedly adopted, for the purpose of enabling the reader to appreciate more readily the variety of phases, which the claims of the United States have assumed in the course of them. The head of this association was John Jacob Astor, a native of Heidelberg, who had emigrated to the United States, and had there amassed very considerable wealth by extensive speculations in the fur trade.
    keywords: account; america; article; bay; boundary; britain; british; captain; claim; coast; columbia; columbia river; company; convention; country; course; discovery; drake; exclusive; expedition; france; french; government; gray; great; greenhow; land; latitude; law; limits; line; louisiana; majesty; mississippi; mountains; nations; negotiations; new; nootka; north; ocean; pacific; parallel; parties; point; possession; respect; right; river; sea; settlement; sound; south; sovereignty; spain; spanish; subjects; territory; time; title; treaty; united states; vancouver; vessels; voyage; west; west coast; world
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        item: #7 of 9
          id: 39334
      author: Denny, Emily Inez
       title: Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound
        date: None
       words: 114702
      flesch: 71
     summary: Then came the panic of 1893 and Mr. Denny was among many other Seattle men who emerged from the cataclysm without a dollar. In the fierce, relentless hand, Old men pleading, plead in vain, Their dark spirits none restrain.
    keywords: a. a.; a. denny; alki; asselt; bay; beautiful; bell; black; boren; brother; building; cabin; camp; canoe; captain; chapter; chief; children; city; claim; columbia; company; county; dark; david; day; days; dead; death; denny; elliott; family; father; feet; fire; following; forest; fort; friends; good; great; ground; half; hand; head; home; house; indians; john; john denny; lake; land; life; living; log; low; man; men; mercer; miles; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; north; number; olympia; oregon; page; party; people; pioneer; place; plains; point; puget; river; saw; seattle; settlement; settlers; sound; street; t. denny; thomas; thought; time; town; trail; trees; van; war; washington; water; way; white; wife; wild; women; work; years; young
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        item: #8 of 9
          id: 41942
      author: Nixon, Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson)
       title: Whitman's Ride Through Savage Lands, with Sketches of Indian Life
        date: None
       words: 41402
      flesch: 72
     summary: Among such stories this of Dr. Whitman has high place. The story of Dr. Whitman is such food as may well nourish the lion heart in all youth, and develop in our American homes the noblest and most attractive Christian virtues.
    keywords: american; christian; company; country; day; doctor; england; fort; friends; general; good; history; home; indians; journey; land; life; men; mission; missionaries; mountains; mrs; new; oregon; people; place; river; spalding; states; time; united; wagon; walla; water; way; white; whitman; women; work; years
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        item: #9 of 9
          id: 43369
      author: Nixon, Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson)
       title: How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon A True Romance of Patriotic Heroism Christian Devotion and Final Martyrdom
        date: None
       words: 75431
      flesch: 69
     summary: This little volume is not intended to be a history of Oregon missions or even a complete biography of Dr. Whitman. The Massacre at Waiilatpui 217-237 CHAPTER XII. Biographical--Dr. Whitman--Dr. McLoughlin 238-249 CHAPTER XIII.
    keywords: american; away; bay; board; chapter; children; company; country; day; days; doctor; england; english; fact; feet; fort; good; government; history; home; hudson; indians; journey; life; marcus whitman; men; miles; mission; missionaries; missionary; mountains; mrs; new; night; oregon; pacific; party; people; place; plains; posts; power; president; rev; ride; river; secretary; states; territory; time; treaty; united; united states; wagons; walla; war; washington; way; whitman; women; work; years
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