A History of Oregon, 1792-1849: Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic InformationGray, W. H. (William Henry)
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A History of Oregon, 1792-1849: Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information
Gray, W. H. (William Henry)
Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon; Oregon Territory -- History
No. 7. A short, thick-set man, with a Nez Percé wife; a good honest
farmer; has done credit to himself and family in giving them every
possible advantage for education and society, though the aquafortis
mixture has been strong in his neighborhood; his family are respected;
his Indian wife he considers as good as some of his neighbors', that
don't like her or her children. In this opinion all who are not
saturated with our _cultus_ mixture agree with him. His title in the
mountains was Squire, but I think it has been improved since he came to
the settlements by adding the E to it, he having been duly elected to
fill the office under the provisional, territorial, and State
government. I have learned, with much regret, that the Squire of the
Rocky Mountains, who had courage and strength to meet and overcome all
the dangers and trials of early times, has not the courage to resist the
approaches of false friends and bad whisky, which will ultimately bring
himself and his family to that certain destruction that follows the
debasing habit of using liquor in any shape.
No. 8. A fair, light-haired, light-complexioned, blue-eyed man, rather
above the medium height, with a Nez Percé wife, came about the camp, had
little or nothing to say. I am not quite certain that he had his native
wife at that time, still he had one when he came into the settlement.
He has a good farm, and if he avoids his false friends and the fatal
habits of his neighbors, he may have a good name, which will be of more
value to his children than his present social and vicious habits.
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