An Outline of Oregon History copies 1 & 2
by Arthur Samuel Taylor (head, social studies division Southern Oregon College, Ashland, Oregon 1950)
Unit One: The Oregon Country Before the White Men Came (including the Indians)
Unit Two: Sea Explorers of the Pacific Northwest (Balboa, Cortez, Cabrillo & Ferele, Drake, Vizcaino, Boring, Perez, Cook)
Unit Three: Discovery of Puget Sound and Columbia River (Dixon, Barclay, Meres & Nootka Sound colony, Vancouver, John Ledyard, Joseph Barrell, Captain Robert Gray
Unit Four: Land Explorers and Fur Traders--Simon Frasor, MacKenzie, David Thompson, Astor party with Fort Astoria already established, Jefferson's interest in the West: Ledyard, Louisiana Purchase, Meriwehter Lewis and William Clark Expedition w/journey from St. Louis + Fort Mandan + Montana region + Snake River to Comubia to Pacific Ocean with winter quarters at Fort Clatsop, Astor organizes Fur Company; Hudson Bay Company with McLoughlin + Ft. Vancouver
Unit Five: The Oregon Question and the Early Pioneers: Joint Occupation Treaty, 1818 America and England; Spain yields right to U.S.; settlement with Russia 1824; Gray's discovery, Lewis and Clark exploration, Astoria settlement, acquisition of the Spanisth title; Canning's Oregon Policy--refused to give up Nootka Sound & Britain refused to give up free use of Columbia River; American trappers vs. Hudson Bay Company; travles of Jedediah S. Smith; Captain Bonneville's South Pass Crossing; Wyeth's trading scheme & builds Fort Hall
Unite Six: Missionary efforts in Oregon. Indian delegation to St.Louis; missionary efforts by Protestants and Catholics; beginning of Willamette Mission; Marcus Whitman missionary efforts with founding mission at Lapwai and later in central Washington; Catholics with Father Blanchet and Demers, Jesuit Father Desmot in Bitter Root Valley and Coeur d'Alene; Indian unrest-->Whitman massacre; U.S. interest in acquisition of Oregon Country: established churches, schools and colleges + agriculture + havens for covered wagon pioneers + helped establish provisional government
Unit Seven: American Colonization: 10 years official inactivity 1827-1837; Slocum visit, The Willamette Cattle Company 1837 with Ewing Young bringing cattle from CA; Jason Lee goes east and lecutres about, Thomas Farnham and group visit with later guided party of people to Oregon; Lieutenant Wilkes visits; Dr. White takes 120 emigrants west 1942; Ashburton Treaty 1842-omitted mention of Oregon question; Great Migration of 1843- noting hard times, slavery unrest and patriotism as the driving forces; Party organizes gathering at Independence, Missouri, Peter H. Burnett, leader + election of officers and division of company, Jesse Applegate's Cow column
Unit Eight: American Government in the Pacific Northwest:
I. Agitation for Government--steps taken at Ewing Young funeral, 1843 question resumed "Wolf Meetings", provisional government 1843, improvements made 1844-45, emigrations 1844-45, Puget Sound Settlement with Hudson's Bay Company & early government; Oregon
II. Oregon Boundary settled--Ashburton-Webster negotiations, Oregon convention at Cincinnati, Calhoun offers 49degree parallel-British refusal, 49th parallel boundary to the sea with question settled in 1846
III. Territory of Oregon, 1848, General Joseph Lane 1st territorial governor
IV. Northwest and California: early CA, Captain Sutter and his fort; Bear Flag Revolt 1846; CA an American Territory 2/2/1848; Gold discovery-->Forty-Niners; growth of Puget Sound Country; 1853 Washington becomes a territory; Oregon Constitutional Convention early phases August to September 1857 and formally OR formally admitted to Union Febryary 1859
Unit Nine: Pioneer Life in the Evergreen Land: I: Pioneer Life with early settlements in Pacific Northwest II: early economic activities of farms and farmers-ranch life on Columbia Plateau-mining and miners-lumbermen and loggers-trapping and fishing III: The Indian Wars-Cayuso War, Chief Joseph, Indian Wars of Southern Oregon, other Indian Wars IV: Pioneer schools, churches and libraries V: Urban life beginnings-Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and other cities and towns
Unit Ten: Oregon of Today I: State government with Executive, Legislative, Judiciary and other state agencies II: State School System wit public, state supported, system of Higher Education and other colleges and universities in Oregon III: Vital Statistics with population trends, populous and sparceley settled sections of the Pacific Northwest plus effects of migrations from other states IV: Oregon's Future in Agriculture, Industry, Culture and religion