Because of not having sufficient money with which to embark in my father's business, I must content myself with becoming a farmer, that I might the better care for my mother. Even though it did not accord with my wishes to abandon the life of a trapper, yet that was of no account, so long as I was able to do my duty by my mother, even as she has done her duty, and more, by me. Concerning the journey down the river, when we traveled comfortably on a boat, there is no reason why I should set down anything, save that we arrived at Oregon City on the twenty-second day of October. We remained at the Mission, with other intending settlers, a long time waiting for the boats, and when we arrived the journey which had been begun on the sixth day of May, if we counted the beginning when we left Independence, was at an end. There were many matters regarding this long march of ours, many small adventures and larger misadventures, which I would dearly have loved to set down. It would also have pleased me to tell how it was that I came to buy land on the Columbia River, with the money earned as a guide, together with what was received from the sale of the old home. All this and more, I would like to set down in detail; but I have not the time in which to do it, therefore I will write as the last words, that I, who once claimed St. Louis as my home, while I labor with my hands in the fields for my dear mother, have put behind me the past with its lure of trapping and hunting, and learned to think of myself only as Antoine of Oregon. [Illustration] BOOKS CONSULTED IN WRITING ANTOINE OF OREGON BALLANTYNE, R. M.: The Dog Crusoe. Henry T. Coates. BRYANT, EDWIN: What I Saw in California. D. Appleton & Co. BRYCE, GEORGE: The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company. Sampson Low, Marston & Co. CHITTENDEN, HIRAM MARTIN: The American Fur Trade of the Far West. Francis P. Harper. DELLENBAUGH, F. S.: Breaking the Wilderness. G. P. Putnam's Sons. DRAKE, SAMUEL ADAMS: The Making of the Great West. Charles Scribner's Sons. IRVING, WASHINGTON: The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. G. P. Putnam's Sons. MARCY, RANDOLPH B.: The Prairie Traveler. Harper & Brothers. PARKMAN, FRANCIS: The Oregon Trail. Little, Brown & Company. PAXSON, FREDERICK L.: The Last American Frontier. The Macmillan Company. POWELL, LYMAN P.: Historic Towns of Western States. G. P. Putnam's Sons. THORNTON, J. QUINN: Oregon and California. Harper & Brothers. THWAITES, REUBEN GOLD: Early Western Travels (Palmer). Arthur H. Clarke Co. THWAITES, REUBEN GOLD: Early Western Travels (Buttrick). Arthur H. Clarke Co. JAMES OTIS'S COLONIAL SERIES Calvert of Maryland Richard of Jamestown Mary of Plymouth Ruth of Boston Peter of New Amsterdam Stephen of Philadelphia Price, each, 35 cents. For grades 3-5