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Hudson Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company was Charted by Kind Charles II, in 1780's it faceed a vigourous young rival in the newly formed NorthWest company of Montreal. The new firms coporate motto was perseverence and apt description of the force that drove nor westeners steadily west ward to the pacific when the Hudson Bay's monopoly locked them from North America's hunting and trapping grounds -
Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail has been called the world's longest graveyard, with one body, on average buried about every eitghy yards. A major cause of disease on the trail was own polluted enviornement. People occasionally left animal carcasses to rot by the trail or burired their dead in shallow graves that were easily opened by wolves and other wild animals. A party of travelers might dig a shallow well for drinking waters, the party to stock pollute it, then moving on. -
North West Company
North West Company would dominate the furst trade of the Oregon Country -
Treaty of Gent
The Treaty of Gent settled the war by restoring all territory -
Rendezvous System
General Ashely popularized the "rendezvous system" a scheme that replaced permanent trading posts and saved money. The typical rendezvous was a combination fair, circus, and rodeo with opportunity for feasting, drinking, and contests of skill. -
Sam Barlow's Toll road.
A road 110 miles from Grand Dalles along the southern slpe of Mount Hood to Oregon City in the Willamatte Valley. It was a welcome but crude, difficult and expensive alternate to the river. -
mystery meat
Peter Skene Ogden's men became ill while trapping along the Raft River. It was attributed to the mysterious affliction to their eating tainted beaver meat. It was concluded that the beavers had eaten poisonous water hemlock that grew along the raft river -
Missionaries
Narcissa Prentiss an idealist journeyed west as an assistant to minister Samuel Parker to become missionaires among the Indians and living beyond the Rocky Mountains. -
Roman Catholic Missions in the Pacific North West
Two Franciscan priests from Canada, Franicis Norbert Blanchett and Modeste Demers responded to a call. The bishop of Qubec instructed them to "regain from barbarism and it's disorders, to save tribes scattered over the country" and to extend their help "to the poor Christians who have adopted the customs of the savages and live in license and forgetfulness of their duties" -
exploration of Far Northwest
The federal Government reentered the buiness of exploring the far Northwest. Members of navy expedition probed the waters of Puget Sound and up the columbia and Snake rivers as far as the Spalding's mission station at Lapwai. -
Oregon Territory
Thousands of land-hungry settlers suppanted fur traders and missionaries as the most representative non-Indian group in the new Northwest. They brought permanty Change to Willamette Valley and other areas. When they laid out farms, and town as well as network of roads. They organized a Government for themselves in 1843 and fibe years later pressured congress into creating the Oregon Territorry. -
Treaty ratified
The senate ratified the treaty in June 1846: The agreement divided the Oregon country by extending the international boundry along the 49th parallel from crest of the Rocky Mountains to middle o the strait of Georgia. -
first traveling Mormans
1847 was the arrival of the first party of Mormans in Salt Lake City. Morman customers stocked stores of their own land and understold the Hudson's Bay Company Post.
They travled o build a Zion free of relgious persecution they had previously encountered. -
state constitution
writers proposed a state constitution assemebled in Salem. They fashioned a document that codified the overland pioneers' essentially pastoral vision of a good society. -
Mining rush
Steamboats carried gold seekers up the Columbia Riveras far as Umatilla and Wallua. Downstream they they carried passengers and all they yellow dust that caused all the activity. -
Pierce City
a jerry-built collection of tents and nondescript sturctures fashioned from hand-hewn logs and whipsawed luber grandiloquently called itself Pierce city. -
Northwest mining town buildings
Early Lewistown amounted little more than collection of tents. One popluar type of building was made by erecting poles upon which rafters were set. The sides, ends and roof were coered with brown muslin. -
Fur Trade
Great profits were being made by selling warm, beautiful and fashionable furst. This fashion made it worthwile for trappers to risk "Skin for Skin" -
American Flag
Nathaniel Wyeth built a trading post on a site north of present-day Poatello, Idaho When the cort was cancled after a month of construction, Wyeth named it for a sentionr partner in his enterprise and ordered a celebration, The next morning a homemade American Flag was raised over Fort Hall and saluted.
