Early Western Travels
1748-1846
Volume XXIX
[Illustration: The Lodge Pole (Indian name); Great Chief of the
Flat-heads. Victor (in baptism)]
Early Western Travels
1748-1846
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best
and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive
of the Aborigines and Social and
Economic Conditions in the Middle
and Far West, during the Period
of Early American Settlement
Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by
Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.
Editor of “The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,” “Original
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” “Hennepin’s
New Discovery,” etc.
Volume XXIX
Part II of Farnham’s Travels in the Great Western Prairies,
etc., October 21-December 4, 1839; and De Smet’s
Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky
Mountains, 1845-1846
[Illustration]
Cleveland, Ohio
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1906
COPYRIGHT 1906, BY
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO
CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIX
I
TRAVELS IN THE GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES, THE ANAHUAC AND ROCKY
MOUNTAINS, AND IN THE OREGON COUNTRY [Part II, being chapter
v of Volume II of the London edition, 1843.] _Thomas Jefferson
Farnham._
Text: [CHAPTER V] Departure from Vancouver—Wappatoo Island—The
Willamette River—Its Mouth—The Mountains—Falls—River above
the Falls—Arrival at the Lower Settlement—A Kentuckian—Mr.
Johnson and his Cabin—Thomas M’Kay and his Mill—Dr. Bailey and
Wife and Home—The Neighbouring Farmers—The Methodist Episcopal
Mission and Missionaries—Their Modes of Operations—The
Wisdom of their Course—Their Improvements, &c.—Return to
Vancouver—Mr. Young—Mr. Lee’s Misfortune—Descent of the
Willamette—Indians—Arrival at Vancouver—Oregon—Its Mountains,
Rivers and Soil, and Climate—Shipment for the Sandwich
Islands—Life at Vancouver—Descent of the Columbia—Astoria—On
the Pacific Sea—The Last View of Oregon—Account of Oregon, by
Lieut. Wilkes, Commander of the late exploring Expedition 13
II
OREGON MISSIONS AND TRAVELS OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, IN 1845-46.
_Pierre Jean de Smet, S. J._
Copyright Notice 108
Author’s Dedication 109
Preface by the First Editor. C. C. P. 111
An Outline Sketch of Oregon Territory and its Missions.
_Anonymous_ 115
Text 145
ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME XXIX
[_Note_: In the original edition the illustrations not only are not
placed with reference to the text, but some of them do not even
illustrate the text. The inscriptions printed below several of the
plates, referring to certain of the Letters, are also misleading. We
have, therefore, rearranged the order of the plates, placing them
as nearly as possible in juxtaposition to the appropriate textual
matter.—ED.]
“The Lodge Pole (Indian name), Great Chief of the Flat-heads.
Victor (in Baptism).” From De Smet’s _Oregon Missions_ _Frontispiece_
Facsimile of illuminated title-page, De Smet’s _Oregon Missions_ 105
Facsimile of regular title-page, De Smet’s _Oregon Missions_ 107
“Oregon Territory, 1846”—folding map 114
“Interior of St. Mary’s Church, Flat-head Mission: Communion
at Easter” 175
“Mission of St. Ignatius at Kalispel Bay, among the Pends
d’Oreilles” 187
“The Hunters at the Buffalo Feast” 227
“View of the new Mission Establishment in 1846, among the
Pointed-Hearts” 315
“St. Mary’s, among the Flat-heads” 323
“Insula, or Red Feather (Michel), Great Chief and Brave
among the Flat-heads” 333
“Great Buffalo Hunt,—View of the Muscle-Shell Mountains” 337
“Announcement of the Discovery of Buffalos” 347
“The Chief reports to his Camp that Buffalos are in sight” 351
“The Chief at the head of his Hunters” 355
“Buffalos discovered” 387
“A Prayer for success in hunting” 401