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Image 1 of The Oregon trail ... The Oiregon Trail A Thesis Submitted for Degree of Master of Arts University of Wisconsin 1918 JONATHAN TRUMAN DORRIS Reprinted horn Journal oi ihe Illinois Slate Hiatoricai Societ Volume 10. No, 4,...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 3 of The Oregon trail ... The Oregon Trail A Thesis Submitted for Degree of Master of Arts University of Wisconsin 1918 By JONATHAN TRUMAN DORRIS Reprinted from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society Volume 10, No....- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 4 of The Oregon trail ...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 5 of The Oregon trail ... PREFATORY NOTE. THE OREGON TRAIL. By Jonathan Teuman Dokeis, A thesis submitted for the Degree of Master of Arts, Univer- sity of Wisconsin, 1918. I chose this subject for my master s...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 6 of The Oregon trail ... THE OREGON TRAIL. CONTENTS. PAGE Chapter I. The Eastern Termini 5 A. The Clauses of the Emigration to Oregon 5 B. The Western Missouri and Iowa Towns 8 C. The Equipment 14...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 7 of The Oregon trail ... THE OREGON TRAIL. A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1918. By Jonathan Truman Doreis. CHAPTER I. The Eastern Termini. A. The Causes of the Emigration...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 8 of The Oregon trail ... 6 Lewis and Clark, beat out a line of communication between the valley of the Columbia and the valley of the Mississippi which became known as the Oregon Trail. Missionaries in time...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 9 of The Oregon trail ... Citizens of Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky and other western and southern states demanded through memorials to Congress that the United States terminate the treaty of joint occupation with England and assert...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 10 of The Oregon trail ... of the Wild and turned their faces toward the land where rolls the Oregon. Economic conditions, or influences, then, were the chief factor behind this westward emigration/^ The legislation favorable to emigration...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 11 of The Oregon trail ... journey, organized themselves into companies, bade farewell to civilization, and began their real exodns to that land which was to be their Canaan. The towns which witnessed the departure of, and gave...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 12 of The Oregon trail ... 10 every want and to render even possible assistance. The newspapers were active in giving valuable information con- cerning the Oregon Country, the journey over the trail, and the necessary preparations for...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 13 of The Oregon trail ... 11 As already stated Independence did not enjoy a monopoly of the emigrant business. St. Joseph, a neighboring town on the east bank of the Missouri and about fifty miles farther north,...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 14 of The Oregon trail ... 12 prospectus of this paper regularly contained a paragraph stating that the patrons of the Journal may expect to find in its columns everything of interest which may be gathered either from...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 15 of The Oregon trail ... 13 A witness to all this wrote later an excellent acconnt of its picturesqneness.^* The town of Independence was at this time a great Babel upon the border of the wildnerness. Here...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 16 of The Oregon trail ... 14 oxen and cracking his whip as though the world was at Ms control. Although some four or five children in the wagon were crying in all possible keys, he drove on,...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 17 of The Oregon trail ... 15 supply be provided at the point of departure. One hundred and fifty pounds of flour and fifty pounds of bacon must be allowed to each person. Besides the above, as much...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 18 of The Oregon trail ... 16 phase of the movement really began in the home communities of the emigiants by the organization of emigrating societies. The first of these, tlie Amei-ican Society for the Enconrage- ment of...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 19 of The Oregon trail ... 17 form a new company. This was the case with the Blooming- ton, Iowa, Society of 1843. In the formation of the moving societies there was a serious problem of getting the...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 20 of The Oregon trail ... 18 his veto by the council s again passing upon the matter. An orderly sergeant, also elected, was to have charge of the roll of the company and to have strict control...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 21 of The Oregon trail ... 19 pioneer was conducive to defections; disappointed office seekers, too, were often stirring up disaffection. Sickness, burials, breakdowns, straying of cattle, and other disturbing elements often made progress very slow. The larger...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 22 of The Oregon trail ... 20 each day, decided on the site for camp and the disposition of the emigrants and their effects during the night, maintained order and discipline, and presided over the meetings of the...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 23 of The Oregon trail ... 21 CHAPTER II, The Tkail to South Pass. A. The Eastern Termini to Grand Island. Prom the points of departure on the Missouri there were two main roads which converged on the...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 24 of The Oregon trail ... 22 for crossing, as the stream could not be forded. The commit- tee refused to accept the proposition of a Frenchman living near to use his platform, or ferry, and began to...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 25 of The Oregon trail ... through whose territory the trail ran, soon began their thiev- ing and intimidations. Most of the emigrants were unaccus- tomed to the savages and manifested fear at their presence. On June 6th...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 26 of The Oregon trail ... 24 arated from them. A little later he tells of a serious alter- cation between two Oregon emigrants, one of whom owned a wagon and the other the oxen which drew the...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 27 of The Oregon trail ... 25 Thornton for May 19 says, An event occurred, which ought to be chronicled in due form in our journal of adven- tures. At 10 clock on the previous night, Mrs. Hall...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 28 of The Oregon trail ... 26 through a sterile wilderness, and like the Nile it unrolls its strip of green across the vastness of the desert, and is the father of all the vegetation near it. The...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 29 of The Oregon trail ... 27 tiously around the sluggard and leave him to have his nap out in the middle of the road. It would sometimes happen that the sleeper would not awake for two or...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 30 of The Oregon trail ... 28 their positions; and the hunters canter away to the hills and plains beyond where the buffalo and antelope may be found. From the summits of the hills, unobscured by the pure...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 31 of The Oregon trail ... 29 four abreast, the oxen unhitched to drink and graze, and the emigrants meals prepared and eaten. Today an extra ses- sion of the council is being held to settle a dispute...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 32 of The Oregon trail ... 30 will be second on duty, then third and fourth, which will bring them through all the watches of the night. They begin at 8 o clock p. m. and end at...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 33 of The Oregon trail ... 31 tongue and of the wagon s crushing one of his legs. After nine days Mr. Bryant, who had a smattering of the knowledge of medicine, was summoned to treat the boy,...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 34 of The Oregon trail ... 32 wagons of the train made to pass over the grave to obliterate any sign of it; so that the Indians or wolves might not molest the corpse, the former for any...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 35 of The Oregon trail ... 33 ture with the Platte. It was of quadrangular shape, enclosing an area of about three quarters of an acre. Its walls were made of sundried bricks and defended by two watch...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 36 of The Oregon trail ... 34 their stores of provisions, bought fresher horses and mules, and repaired their wagons. The place resembled civilization more than any other which they saw after leaving the fron- tier. Provisions here...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 37 of The Oregon trail ... 35 dens. As a result many of these faithful animals succumbed to their tortures and Avere left worn-out and dying along the way/® Early on the journey the emigrants discovered that they...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 38 of The Oregon trail ... 36 more than 7000 feet above the sea, reached without any serious difficulty. This gap in the mountains was found to be some- thing like 19 miles wide and rather easily traversed....- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 39 of The Oregon trail ... 37 CHAPTER ni. South Pass to the Willamette Valley. A. South Pass to Fort Hall. From South Pass two routes ran, uniting on the Bear River. One extended westward across the two...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919
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Image 40 of The Oregon trail ... 38 over or broke down. The road, of course, was even worse for the oxen than that east of the Pass, and the emigrants con- tinued, to leave them to die by...- Contributor: Dorris, Jonathan Truman
- Date: 1919