Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/earlywesterntrav30thwa EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846 VOLUME XXX EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846 A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL. D. Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's New Discovery," etc. Volume XXX Palmer's Journal of Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 [Illustration: decoration] Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1906 Copyright 1906, by The Arthur H. Clark Company All Rights Reserved The Lakeside Press R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company Chicago CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXX PREFACE. _The Editor_ 9 JOURNAL OF TRAVELS OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, TO THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER; MADE DURING THE YEARS 1845 AND 1846: containing minute descriptions of the Valleys of the Willamette, Umpqua, and Clamet; a general description of Oregon Territory; its inhabitants, climate, soil, productions, etc., etc.; a list of Necessary Outfits for Emigrants; and a Table of Distances from Camp to Camp on the Route. Also; A Letter from the Rev. H. H. Spalding, resident Missionary, for the last ten years, among the Nez Percé Tribe of Indians, on the Kooskooskee River; The Organic Laws of Oregon Territory; Tables of about 300 words of the Chinook Jargon, and about 200 Words of the Nez Percé Language; a Description of Mount Hood; Incidents of Travel, &c., &c. _Joel Palmer._ Copyright Notice 24 Author's Dedication 25 Publishers' Advertisement 27 Text: Journal, April 16, 1845-July 23, 1846 29 Necessary Outfits for Emigrants traveling to Oregon 257 Words used in the Chinook Jargon 264 Words used in the Nez Percé Language 271 Table of Distances from Independence, Missouri; and St. Joseph, to Oregon City, in Oregon Territory 277 Appendix: Letter of the Rev. H. H. Spalding to Joel Palmer, Oregon Territory, April 7, 1846 283 Organic Laws of Oregon (with amendments). 299 ILLUSTRATION TO VOLUME XXX FACSIMILE OF TITLE-PAGE, PALMER'S JOURNAL OF TRAVELS. 23 PREFACE TO VOLUME XXX