Antoine of Oregon: A Story of the Oregon Trail

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Otis James. Antoine of Oregon: A Story of the Oregon Trail

THE FUR TRADERS

WHY I AM NOT A FUR TRADER

STRIVING TO PLAN FOR THE FUTURE

AN INQUISITIVE STRANGER

AN UNEXPECTED PROPOSITION

I SET OUT AS A GUIDE

JOHN MITCHELL'S OUTFIT

MAKING THE BARGAIN

WE LEAVE ST. LOUIS

THE HARDSHIPS TO BE ENCOUNTERED

THE CAMP AT INDEPENDENCE

A FRONTIER TOWN

THE START FROM INDEPENDENCE

CARELESS TRAVELERS

OVERRUN BY WILD HORSES

SEARCHING FOR THE LIVE STOCK

ABANDONING THE MISSING ANIMALS

MEETING WITH OTHER EMIGRANTS

A TEMPEST

FACING THE INDIANS

TEACHING THE PAWNEES A LESSON

THE PAWNEE VILLAGE

A BOLD DEMAND

I GAIN CREDIT AS A GUIDE

A DIFFICULT CROSSING

WASH DAY

INDIAN PICTURES

A PLAGUE OF WOOD TICKS

ANOTHER TEMPEST

THE CATTLE STAMPEDED AGAIN

DIFFICULT TRAVELING

COLONEL KEARNY'S DRAGOONS

DISAGREEABLE VISITORS

DRIVING AWAY THE INDIANS

TURKEY HUNTING

EAGER HUNTERS

ANTELOPE COUNTRY

SHOOTING ANTELOPES

A PAWNEE VISITOR

THE PAWNEES TRY TO FRIGHTEN US

DEFENDING OURSELVES

SCARCITY OF FUEL, AND DISCOMFORT

LAME OXEN

AN ARMY OF EMIGRANTS

THE BUFFALO COUNTRY

HUNTING BUFFALOES

MY MOTHER'S ADVICE

ASH HOLLOW POST OFFICE

NEW COMRADES

FORT LARAMIE

A SIOUX ENCAMPMENT

INDIANS ON THE MARCH

THE FOURTH OF JULY

MULTITUDES OF BUFFALOES

WE MEET COLONEL KEARNY AGAIN

ACROSS THE DIVIDE

FORT BRIDGER

TRADING AT FORT HALL

THIEVISH SNAKES

THE HOT SPRINGS

THE FALLS OF THE SNAKE RIVER

SIGNS OF THE INDIANS

BESET WITH DANGER

HUNGER AND THIRST

NEARLY EXHAUSTED

ARRIVAL AT FORT BOISE

ON THE TRAIL ONCE MORE

CAYUSE INDIANS

THE COLUMBIA RIVER

AN INDIAN FERRY

THE DALLES OF THE COLUMBIA

OUR LIVE STOCK

MY WORK AS GUIDE ENDED

I BECOME A FARMER

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There is ever much pride in my heart when I hear it said that all the trails leading from the Missouri River into the Great West were pointed out to the white people by fur buyers, for my father was well known, and in a friendly way, as one of the most successful of the free traders who had their headquarters at St. Louis.

It is not for me to say, nor for you to believe, that the fur traders were really the first to travel over these trails, for, as a matter of fact, they were marked out in the early days by the countless numbers of buffaloes, deer, and other animals that always took the most direct road from their feeding places to where water could be found.

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There were regular battles fought between the hunters and trappers of these great companies in the olden days, when St. Louis was under Spanish rule and had become a famous gathering place for the fur traders.

There were many like my father, who, hiring men to help them, carried into the wilderness goods to be exchanged with the Indians for furs, and, failing in this, set about trapping fur-bearing animals throughout the winter season.

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