A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 / Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information

Chronicles the region's development from early maritime discovery through mid-19th-century settlement, tracing fur-trade rivalries, establishment and fate of Astoria, the expansive influence and contested claims of the Hudson's Bay Company and Puget Sound Agricultural Company, the arrival and struggles of Protestant missions, interactions and conflicts with Indigenous peoples, legal and diplomatic disputes over land and commerce, and the organization of local provisional government, together with notes on mining and agriculture; narrative draws on the author's decades of personal observation and contemporary documents to assemble a chronological account of events, institutions, and principal actors shaping the territory up to 1849.