The Great Northwest A History
by Oscar Osburn Winther
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1950
Alfred A. Knopf New York
I. when the white man came; II. the sea otter era w/British explorations and estab. of Sea Otter Trade, Yankee Triangle Trade
III. North West Company, origin, British, Nor'westers enter Valley of the Columbia; IV Hudson's Bay Company;
V British monopoly fur traders and turn to agriculture--herds and flocks--Puget's Sound Agricultural Company
VI. fur trade: Captains Lewis and Clark, Astor precursors, Jedediah Smith disaster, adventurous Captain Bonneville, Nathaniel Wyeth
VII. 1st families of Willamette Valley, the Great Trail to Oregon, missionary settlers, Oregon Fever, Prairie cavalcades
VIII. provisional governemtn, Champoeg meetings;
IX. joint occupation (until 1819=Spain, Russia, Great Britain, United States--Oregon Territory;
X. Oregon & Washington Territorial politics: Whitman Massacre, creation of Oregon Territory, Donation Land Law, statehood and impending Civil War, Washington Territory
XI. Agricultural Frontier--spread of Settlement, Indain menace, roads through the wilderness, social fabric
XII. stagecoach and paddlewheel; XIII. Cultural quest--gospel & learning to the Natives, rise of State Universities, religious & social life, from cabin to pseudo-Gothic; XIV. Mineral Frontier & commerce of the Inland Empire: 49ers, goldrush to Inland Empire, gold in Montana, Fraser River and the Cariboo, Mullan Road, wagon freight commerce; XV. government & lawlessness, creation of Idaho Territory, Montana Territory, desperadoes and the Mountain Code, Chief Joseph and the Non-Reservation Nez Perce
Post-Frontier Period 1883-1950
XVI. "bands of steel", Villard completes Northern Pacific Railroad, completion of Oregon and California Railroad, Oregon Short Line Railroad, Canadians build to Pacific, James J. Hill and the Great Northern, the Milwaukee Road; XVII. range cattle business, sheep move westward-great sheep drives; XVIII. irrigation The Grand Coulee Dam, The Reclamation Timetable; XIX. Agricultural revolution, making the desert bloom, dry farming, diversified or general farming, livestock, marketing problems and producers' co-operatives; XX. industry & commerce, fishing indistry, timber; XXI. hydroelectricity--private, publich ownership, power co-operatives and public utility districts, electrification of industry; XXII. politico-economic ferment: post Civil War 1865-96, The Grange, local elections 1896-1916, the Oregon System, Legislative Record, local politics between 2 wars; XXIII. Social Front: new elements, "The Yellow Peril" (Chinese), growing city consciousness, the labor front; XXIV. refinements of life: literary, Northwest Press, theatrical and musical entertainment, fine arts and architecture, education