McLoughlin and the Willamette
For me, at least, I have a lot of difficulty in sorting out the story of Chief Factor John McLoughlin’s time at the Willamette Falls, a set of falls on…
Read moreIn writing my blogpost of last week (that is, Thomas Lowe’s journal), I have become aware that I am missing John McLoughlin’s letters for the same period, and it is…
Read moreRobert Birnie was the son of James Birnie, of the NWC and HBC. He was born in “Oregon [Territory] in the year 1824, 7th February, place now called Astoria, it…
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