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(CWin~r ~sses'Qt_Cattle/in th~ ~rego: Count~y; 1874~18J~ ~~'O~in¥;liPtnt<pavid T.h6inpson's Journeys in the Pend Orei-lle'COuIltry' T. C. ElUottSpaniards in-.-Early Oregon :, y~ .J. Neilson Barry/I

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c, m,P?;,t,ant .Hud~0!!t.s Bay Company<:r;>ocume~t7' :. , , F. W, HowayTqe D~spllte o,\rer th~ S~ Juan, Island Wj1ter Bqundary ':" .At/red TmfemMadaurieS: ,Travels T~Q?gh America:' A Pirate? AccouJ1t~f • '" . _.

-Ale~ande-F ¥acketwe s Voyages : R. W. Howay /..-.What Mining Has~Don~ for .Britlsh.:columbia~ -; ..•.~ : Dale L. Pitt

.~Amor De_tosmo~ a' I!ritish,~I~~b!.,~.RefoI'ni~'t.-,: ~ ,' ?NM~rgd:...et R&.:rs. qIar~nce Booth Bagley .. f ••••• ,..;: .'. -::.;", "'"'' .<••••••••• •• Edmond S. Meany

B'ffl . th'p 'fi N lit A • ~ \C"'S K-~ ,, u a.o m e aCI ~ ~t west. ..,. .2. :' .. -' -:;--., ", . ..Jnu.s.!P,", The Northern OVlj1'land Rf!,.ute to.Montana v ..••......•. u:: M. UMerhilJ

Puget Sou.!!,d and the, Nor1hern PacitJc R'ailroad .. ,.... I " •• '.' Edmujw t. Colemahr Th' C '-' f~h ~""C' '" ,.... K ' h W' c_, . e !U1~--9 t ~ ofes)er ~ " ie. -' • ~ .(... e1J<HI!;t , . Por~~r '

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The Founc!ation of the Paget Sound Agricultural C01!1pany LeQtyJrd A. Wrinch,, \ Pioneer-ExPerie~ce jn Walla Walla.>;.~.:.'..: .'... :': ".,::..;,. .. WilMm S. C1.f!rk

'-JO.T th '..: I' J ~. W t'h 'A l " ]?h:.rp"H ' 0 0. ,tV!~a lhue, ar;~1s ye 'c • •••• iC" ( ••••.•••,'; '," ._•• , ••: :~' ~nrY~ :verme:yq~

, A Short Accol}nt- ~f Robert--Haswell , ....•......•... .-. F. W.· H owa-yThe Walla-Walla Separation MQ,v~ment. ..•.................. .C. S.' Kil~gston·

- " Th~'Operations in th"e Oregon Country ei the' American Bible Society and -..,J- ,'•. ~£_the~'J\meric~1J'actSociety BCJore;the Civil V:ar .. : .. .I. Ori'!. p~~Jfl1rrt 't

"') Wllh,e1m N. ~ksdorf -V""""""""~"'" • ".GeoY4jc'Nevtnit!-oj7.es"-" How Asia Used to Dripjat the Spout Il1to America" .'..... .M<Jri,1ls, BarlJeau~ _ ', tp.~'si~e;.§ of the ,Oregon M~mol"i~1 o~ 1838" .. : :~.'.£orneliu; ~:BroS1}an,, WJCs..."Ther~ a--<Pri!lting ~ress in Washin~{>n in 1844?: .Douglas C.- McMurt..,rie

J ,Sptiety in Cariboo Duringt,!Ie Go14 Rusli.' \ Isa~eLM.-L.cBesli-0IJ,y

; ,The ~rect~ of Kitsap County ?: ':' ,; ~,; .. '," '.. ':--.. .-Chloe §utton'HigllSchools in Territorial Washington .. ' : .. ;- ':.F"'l!.d~rick 'E". Bo1ton

, Captaln Cornelius Sowle on th$ P~ificoo. ;~; ~ ~<F. ·W. Howgy. The'Big Bottol)1 {Lewis CoumyJ, 1833]1933 :~ Walker Allison tompkins>'.A N0te onlihe Origins 0.£ the .Strife(~.etw.een;Sir george Simpson and 1""

I r ·,pr. John Mct.-oughl.!,!1 -:- ....:, : 00 i'· ~.u:qltet; N 1$age1:-'.1>ioneer Days_at Old Dungeness. ;:- : .//..........•Mrs. qeorge Lotzgesell ~

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/,R~ssian Shi~bui1<ti~g,in the; t'-l11~r.i~an C.~l~nle~ ',' I • •••-C: .•. ClareJiCe &-l.lndre'Z!!.SLIfe at a Fur:Tradirlg Post tn·Brttts" <;::oluml,na a,Centu.ry Ago 'ff-alter. N.,/SageTb~ LibratiPf Archibald M~K;inlay, Oregon Fur Trader ./: Orin Oliphant

'" La:wyer~~f-the.N~z Per~es ' ....• , .. '.or ;' ./:--P:fjan~e1!, '. -·Quillay,ute Indian Traditioll. -:-: oo ..::--::•. ;~~ Harry Hob4tket

~ , / ;7: ) ~ '. \~\':U:y Vil~ard's ']\i5' to Educ~tion. , : : E~m0tuJ. ,S, 1Y!eanjJ '"

-;, The Botam.cal Laoors,of.the Reverend Hehr-y IJ. Spaldmg ,oJ. Orm QMhant ,'- Benjamin Clapp>: Notes on lIis,v!--ater Life.:-•............ .~enn·eth-W:--porterc

History of fhe Lake Washingt'On Canal "" .•........ .. ]ifeiI H. P,urois, The Slaying'of Pio-Pio-'Mox-Mox ' : .. '.•:-..•..... ,".-,-, . .l-e f. Santefl

1-. < 'V' ~ u: i"DI b' Wi"" C I d" ( 1\ ' Alb t B R ',' ,< ~ ano~s ' . ses 0 --r,ants y es ,oa~t n 1l~.n,sl ..·: ..; 00'" '.'.. _IPt . eagan/~_ Captain,George Musala Colvocoresses, U. S.'N Haraltl,Cofvocqrefses

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W. P. BONNEY, Tacoma EDWARD McMAHON, SeattleT. C. ELLIOTT, Walla Walla C. S. KINGSTON, CheneyA. W. SHIELS, South Bellingham O. B. SPERLIN, Seattle

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N. R. Ii:night The Baekground of Early WnshlngtonBanking.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 243

Robert L. Homnnan Frontler Soelety-Cedar Creek, ltlontana1870-1874 264

A. G. Hn:rvey How William Alexan(ler Smith BeeameAmor De Cosmos 274

J. Orin Oliphant Doeuments Illustrating the PresbyterianAdvanee Into the Oregon Country(Coneluded) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 280

Book Reviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 302

News Department 307

Index 313

THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

STATE HISTORI~ALSOCIETY

UNIVERSITY STATION

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Entered as second-class matter ,November 15, 1906, at the Postoffice atSeattle, Washington, under the act of Congress of July 16, 1894.

~t Wasbington Wnibtrsit!'~tatt J}istorital ~ocitt!'

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESSSEATTLE, WASHINGTON