• The Willamette Cattle Company was formed in 1837 by pioneers in the Willamette Valley of present-day Oregon, United States. The company was formed with...
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  • Oregon Willamette Pass Resort, a ski area in the Cascade Range of Oregon Willamette Stone, survey marker in Oregon Willamette Cattle Company, a company formed...
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    Bailey, known as the Willamette Cattle Company on a cattle drive to bring several hundred head of cattle from California to the Willamette Valley, under the...
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    Jason Lee (missionary) (category Willamette University people)
    pressing issue, Slacum suggested that cattle from Alta California be purchased. The Willamette Cattle Company was formed and the Loriot gave passage...
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  • the Willamette Valley, Slacum noted the dependency of the pioneers on the Hudson's Bay Company. This was especially true when it came to cattle, as the...
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    survivors. In 1837, as part of the Willamette Cattle Company, Bailey, Gay and others were herding cattle north to the Willamette Valley when Gay shot and killed...
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    The Willamette Stone was a small stone obelisk originally installed by the Department of Interior in 1885 in the western hills of Portland, Oregon in the...
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  • Ewing Young (category Willamette Valley)
    venture among the men to purchase cattle. In January 1837, Young was selected as the leader of the Willamette Cattle Company. He traveled to California on...
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  • one nation held dominion over the territory. A group of settlers in the Willamette Valley began meeting in 1841 to discuss organizing a government for the...
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  • helped build the first grist mill in Oregon, participated in the Willamette Cattle Company, and was a participant at the Champoeg meeting where he voted...
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    trails were cleared increasingly farther west and eventually reached the Willamette Valley in Oregon, at which point what came to be called the Oregon Trail...
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    British as the Columbia Department or Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company. (Also included in the region was the southern portion of another fur district...
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    the dependence of the settlers on the cattle of the HBC. Although the Willamette Cattle Company brought some cattle to Oregon Country, the demand exceeded...
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    joined a wagon train led by the missionary Dr Elijah White headed the Willamette Valley. While serving as a guide for the wagon train, Elbridge Trask met...
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    other American colonists formed the Willamette Cattle Company in 1837 to bring over 600 head of cattle to the Willamette Valley, with about half of its shares...
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    British and in Canadian history as the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company, and including the southern portion of its sister district New Caledonia...
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    first Oregon missionary. He built a mission school for Indians in the Willamette Valley in 1834. American settlers began to arrive from the east via the...
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    to his economic activities that included participation in the Willamette Cattle Company in 1837. At the same time Babcock's election had also been a compromise...
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  • Mission at The Dalles and prevent any hostile forces from reaching the Willamette Valley. In addition, the governor appointed a peace commission, consisting...
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    law. As part of the general survey, the Willamette Stone was placed just west of Portland, defining the Willamette Meridian. After the 1855 cut-off date...
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  • and later settler in the Oregon Country. He was a member of the Willamette Cattle Company that brought livestock to Oregon and built the first brick house...
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    John McLoughlin (category Hudson's Bay Company people)
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    to gather reinforcements in the United States for his mission in the Willamette Valley. Then, in 1840, mountain man Joseph Meek, whom the Whitmans met...
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    the Pacific Northwest in June 1842, navigating up the Columbia and the Willamette River to just below Oregon City, which was the largest settlement in the...
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    intended to delay the use of the wood resources, as a settler in the Willamette Valley had suggested to the noble that he would establish a trading post...
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    experiences influenced the family to find an easier and safer way to the Willamette Valley. In 1846, the Oregon Provisional Legislature allowed the Applegates...
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    nations. A total of almost 60 men were directed to locations from the Willamette Valley of Oregon to the Bitterroot Valley of Montana and the vicinity...
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    located in Marion County, Oregon, United States, in the Willamette Valley between the Willamette River and the Pudding River, north of Salem. It was named...
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    gold dust began to circulate in the Willamette Valley, though impurities were common. The Oregon Exchange Company was authorized by the legislature to...
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