The Mountains of Oregon

by W. G. Steel

1847.—Murdered by the Indians in November.—(Barrows' Oregon, page 320).

1841.—Wilkes, Charles,—Drayton, R. R. Waldron and two other men visited the Willamette Valley on a scientific campaign.—(Pacific States, vol. 23, page 673. Wilkes' Narrative, vol. 4, page 341).

1829.—Willamette Falls taken possession of by McLaughlin, and a saw mill established.—(Pacific States, vol. 23, page 505).

1806.—Willamette River.—Part of it called by the Indians Multnomah.—(Pacific States, vol. 23, page 60).

1843.—Winds, peculiarity of, in the Columbia River.—(Fremont, page 190).

1834.—Work, John.—explored the Umpqua region.—(Pacific States, vol. 23, page 527).

1832.—Wyeth, Nathaniel J.—Arrives at Vancouver.

1834.—Arrives there second time, September 16th. Established Fort William and a Salmon fishery on Wapato Island on his second trip.

1837.—Returns to Oregon again and sells Forts William and Hall to the Hudson's Bay Co.—(Pacific States, vol. 23, pages 564, 592, 594 and 598).

Yaquina Bay.—Probably named for Yaquina, a female Indian chief.—(Life on Puget Sound, page 174).