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314 ORGANIZATION OF PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

to learn the difference between men trained to sub- serviency, and the quick reasoning and alert inde- pendence of the Americans, who though sometimes dressed in skins possessed the faculty of making themselves masters of whatsoever destiny fortune laid upon them. 23

■« The authorites from which this chapter has been drawn, besides those already quoted, are Or. Pioneer Assoc, Trans., 1875, 61; Evans Address m £pLZ Assoc, Tram., 1877, 32; Browns Willamette Valley, MS 31; Atkn, son's Or. Colonists, 3, 4; Or. Spectator, May 12, 1847; Gravers Or . Archive^ 5-7; Deadys Hist. Or., MS., 14, 74; Thornton's Oregon Hist.,^, 6; Evan* Hist Or., MS., 265-71; Matthieu's Refugee, MS., 19; Maryswlle Appeal Xov. 4 1865; Burnett's Recollections, MS., i. 184; Strong s Hist. Or., MS., bl; Grover's Pub. Life, MS., 23-5; J. Q. Thornton, in Or. Pioneer Assoc, Tram.. 1874, 70; Burnett, in Niles' Register, lxvm. 393.

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