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I. The European Powers in America ... 1 II. Spain Enters the Struggle and Fails, . . 5 III. France Sells her Claims 17 IV. Russia Declines the Struggle .... 22 V. English Explorations and Ambitions . . .27 VI. The Hudson Bay Company 33 VII. English Monopoly of the Frontier . . .48 VIII. Astoria ; Its Founding and Failure . . 57 IX. Face to Face; America and England . . .64 X. American Speeches, English Steel-traps, and Diplomacy 71 XI. Western Men on the Oregon Trail . . .77 XII. The Great English Mistake .... 87 XIII. Four Flat-Head Indians in St. Louis . . .103 XIV. "A Quart of Sekd Wheat " .... 114 XV. A Bridal Tour of Thirty-five Hundred Miles . 121 XVI. Whitman's " Old Wagon " 140 XVII. Anxiety and Strategy of the Hudson Bay Company 147 XVIII Whitman's Ride 160 -XIX. Oregon not in the Treaty of Webster and Ashburton 179^ XX. Is Oregon worth Saving? 189 XXI. Titles to Oregon 205 XXII. The Claims of the United States to Oregon 212 XXIII. History Vindicated 224_ XXIV. Two Hundred Wagons for Oregon . . 239 XXV. The People Discuss the Question . , . 255 XXVI. Immigrants Settle the Oregon Question . 263 XXVII. "Fifty-four Forty, or Fight" . . . .272 y XXVIII. At Last A Treaty 282 ,X

Who reads Oregon. The Struggle for Possession?

Author

William Barrows

Publisher

Houghton, Mifflin and Co.

Published

1888

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities