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Oregon Trail and Some Of Its Blazers

by Maude A Rucker, 1930, early Oregon Territory History and Applegate family. Author is a decendent Lisbon Applegate, who stayed behind when his brothers, Lindsey, Charles, and Jesse Applegate traveled to Oregon. 

Contents

Preface- 9

The Name Oregon- 19

Settlement of Oregon- 23

The Oregon Pioneers of 1843- 35

Jesse Applegate by Joseph Schafer- 48

A Day with the Cow-Column by Jesse Applegate- 70

Recollections of my Boyhood by Jesse Applegate- 85

Letters of Jesse Applegate- 219

Lindsey Applegate Reminiscences- 248

Herrick's Account of Jesse Applegate- 289

Location
979.5 RUC 1930
Source Reference