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GATHERING OF THE COMPANIES.

There were two or more points of departure from the

Missouri frontier this year; and there were many companies Two divisions rendezvoused at Indepen- dence ; one with twenty-five wagons, under Presley Welch, with Joel Palmer and Samuel K. Barlow as aids and one commanded by Samuel Hancock, con- sisting of forty wagons. Hancock, with Bacon and others of this immigration, have contributed liberally to my historical archives. 3

A" third company, with fifty-two wagons, left bt Joseph under the command of Hackleman, to which belonged W. W. Buck of Oregon City, 4 well known in his aclopted country. A fourth company of sixty- one wagons and three hundred persons, startmg from St Joseph also, was commanded by W. G. T \ ault, with John Waymire as lieutenant, and James Allen as sergeant. There was another company of sixty-six wagons, and about the same number of persons, under Solomon Tetherow. Here, as elsewhere m human

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Hancock settled on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. He has written a large manuscript volume, entitled Thirteen Years' Residence on the Northwest Coast, narrating the incidents of the immigration and many of his adventures on the Pacific coast. J. M. Bacon, of Barlow's division, has also written on the sublet Bacon was a native of Buffalo. Love of adventure induced him to go to Oregon. Engaging in various mercantile pursuits, he eventually £Xl permanently in &rtgcSi City. . His Mercantile ^O^O^VB., is a running commentary on the business and business men of the ^untry

W W Buck was born in New York in 1804, but emigrated from Ohio.

He was a saddle and harness maker, a man of intelligence and enterprise "d"ds manuscript gives the history of several of the first ^ nian ^tones of the country, in which he was interested, under the name of Enterprises at Oregon City, MS.

↑ Indians on the western shore of the Missouri River, and inappropriately calling it our wester frontier. But the pioneers of 1843 and 1844 broke over the barrier, passed the red men of the forest, and established themselves in their new homes in Oregon and California. In this mighty movement we see human nature waking in her might from the slumber of centuries, girding herself for the conflict, and overcoming every obstacle, going* forth to assert hS inaliena le rights and the equality of men throughout the American contSent? Or. t!v , 23-4. Nile/ Reg?, lxviii. 339-tO, has some remarks on hfthought/eJslnd' aimless rush of well-conditioned people to seek pover ty and hardships. Polynesian, Jan. 31, 1846; McKmlay, in H. B. Co. ho., and harcismi / ^ xtoi ^ pamphlet on Oregon Territory appears to have been first published in Washington, and afterward reproduced m Oregon City by George Abernethy. It contains the laws of Oregon, with an account of the political condition of the country, its resources, soil, climate, productions, and progress in education, with facts and figures concerning pop- ulation, and other matters, enlivened by some eloquent passages, original and quoted, of a patriotic nature.

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[1] Indians on the western shore of the Missouri River, and inappropriately calling it our wester frontier. But the pioneers of 1843 and 1844 broke over the barrier, passed the red men of the forest, and established themselves in their new homes in Oregon and California. In this mighty movement we see human nature waking in her might from the slumber of centuries, girding herself for the conflict, and overcoming every obstacle, going* forth to assert hS inaliena le rights and the equality of men throughout the American contSent? Or. t!v , 23-4. Nile/ Reg?, lxviii. 339-tO, has some remarks on hfthought/eJslnd' aimless rush of well-conditioned people to seek pover ty and hardships. Polynesian, Jan. 31, 1846; McKmlay, in H. B. Co. ho., and harcismi / ^ xtoi ^ pamphlet on Oregon Territory appears to have been first published in Washington, and afterward reproduced m Oregon City by George Abernethy. It contains the laws of Oregon, with an account of the political condition of the country, its resources, soil, climate, productions, and progress in education, with facts and figures concerning pop- ulation, and other matters, enlivened by some eloquent passages, original and quoted, of a patriotic nature.