Contents

T. C. ELLIOTTJournal of John Work, Sept. 7th-Dec. 14th, 1825[163]
C. O. ERMATINGERThe Columbia River Under Hudson's Bay Company Rule[192]
EDMOND S. MEANYThree Diplomats Prominent in the Oregon Question[207]
DOCUMENTS—A New Vancouver Journal[215]
BOOK REVIEWS[225]
NEWS DEPARTMENT[232]
NORTHWESTERN HISTORY SYLLABUS[235]
HISTORY TEACHERS' SECTION[238]

THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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The Washington University State Historical Society

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1914

Vol V., No. 3 July, 1914

The Washington Historical Quarterly

[JOURNAL OF JOHN WORK, SEPT. 7TH-DEC. 14TH, 1825]

(Introduction and annotations by T. C. Elliot)

That part of this Journal covering the period from June 21st to Sept. 6th, including the introduction thereto, is already familiar to readers of Vol. V., No. 2 (April, 1914), of this Quarterly: a second installment is now given, and the third and last will appear in the October number. From September 7th to November 14th Mr. Work is in charge of Spokane House, the Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post located near the present city of Spokane, and his journal relates the day-to-day occurrences there, the arrival of the express from across the Rocky Mountains, the starting off of the clerk going to the Kootenay District for the winter, etc. On the 14th of November Mr. Work leaves Mr. Birnie at Spokane House and himself starts off for his winter station at Flathead Post or Fort on the Clark Fort of the Columbia. This journal enables us to identify positively the location of this Flathead Fort at this time, it being several miles further up the River than the original Saleesh House built on Thompson's Prairie or Plain by David Thompson in 1809. The parenthetical marks are used to designate words that are doubtful because indistinct in the original manuscript, of which this is a copy.