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  • Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

    Creator:
    Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
    Abstract:
    Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    a United States agent, William Slacum, made a study of the Willamette Valley tribes early in 1837