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ENDNOTES

1. Merk, Fur Trade and Empire, p. 78.

2. Ibid., p. 87.

3. H.B.S., 10:69.

4. Ibid., 4:207.

5. Ibid., 10:69.

6. Merk, Fur Trade and Empire, p. 310.

7. Ibid.; H.B.S., 4:207.

8. Merk, Fur Trade and Empire, p. 332; H.B.S., 7:xviii.

9. H.B.S., 4:137-38 fn.; John S. Galbraith, The Hudson's Bay Company As an Imperial Factor, 1821-1869 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957), pp. 193-95.

10. H.B.S., 4:138-39.

11. Ibid., pp. 215—16.

12. Ibid., 7:xx. This was the party supported by Purser William A. Slacum of the United States Navy.

13. Ibid., 4:249—51; ibid., 7:xvi.

14. Ibid., 4:258, 264, 284-85.

15. [Otto Klotz, comp.,] Certain Correspondence of the Foreign Office and of the Hudson's Bay Company, Copied from Original Documents, London 1898 (Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1899), pt. 2, pp. 36-37. In 1840 the Hudson's Bay Company was obligated to deliver only as much of these quantities as it could.

16. George Simpson, An Overland Journey Round the World during the Years 1841 and 1842, 2 vols. in 1 (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1847), 1:108.

17. James R. Gibson, "Food for the Fur Traders: The First Farmers in the Pacific Northwest, 1805-1846," Journal of the West 7 (January, 1968): 27.

18. H.B.S., 6:233—34.

19. Simpson, An Overland Journey, 1:108.

20. Ibid., p. 143.

21. Wilkes, Narrative, 4:334.

22. H.B.S., 6:41. Even with this allowance, however, there still seems to be considerable disparity between the estimates.

23. Ibid., p. 237.

24. Ibid., p. 256.

25. Ibid., p. 268.

26. John McLoughlin to George Simpson, Vancouver, March 20, 1843, in H.B.C.A., D.5/8, MS, fol. 160; George Simpson to John McLoughlin, Red River Settlement, June 21, 1843, in H.B.C.A., B.223/c/1, MS, fols. 197-197d; H.B.S., 6:81-82, 123, 314-15. Ermatinger received notice of his promotion to chief trader shortly after his return from this trip.

27. Alfred L. Lomax, "History of Pioneer Sheep Husbandry in Oregon," Oregon Historical Quarterly 29 (June, 1928): 120; John Minto, "Sheep Husbandry in Oregon," ibid. 3 (September, 1902): 220.

28. Minto, "Sheep Husbandry in Oregon," pp. 220-21; H.B.S., 6:108, 136.

29. H.B.S., 7:129-30.

30. Galbraith, The Hudson's Bay Company, p. 217.

31. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/l55, MS, pp. 168-69. Probably there were sheep also., but if they belonged to the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company they would not have been included in the inventory.

32. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers [2:] 52.

33. Minto, "Sheep Husbandry in Oregon," p. 220; Wilkes, Narrative, 4:335.

34. Wilkes, Narrative, 4:334.

35. H.B.S., 6:223.

36. Galbraith, The Hudson's Bay Company, p. 217.

37. For a description of such a hunt at Fort Nisqually see Edward Huggins, "In the Early Days," in Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger, December 15, 1892.

38. Edward Belcher, Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, Performed in Her Majesty's Ship Sulphur, during the Years 1836-1842, 2 vols. (London, 1843), 1:296.

39. H.B.S., 6:238.

40. Ibid., pp. 319, 327.

41. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/158, MS, pp. 148-49.

42. H.B.S., 7:92.

44. H.B.S., 6:124.

45. [Archibald Barclay] to John McLoughlin, London, September 3, 1844, in H.B.C.A., B.223/c/1, MS, fols. 225—226.

46. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/158, MS, pp. 148—49; H.B.S., 7:31.

47. H.B.S., 7:186.

48. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [2:] 82.

49. Rockwood, "Diary of Rev. George H. Atkinson," Oregon Historical Quarterly 40 (June, 1939): 184.

50. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [2:] 45-46.

51. Victor J. Farrar, ed., "The Nisqually Journal," Washington Historical Quarterly l5 (July, 1924): 224.

52. H.B.C.A., B.223/z/5, MS, fol. 265d.

53. Testimony of A. H. Tuzo, in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [2:] 176—77.

54. Caywood, Final Report, pp. 9-10.

55. Ibid., p. 9. The area of flooring measured about nine by seventeen feet and lay about thirty feet south of the north stockade wall, barely within the probable confines of the Beef Store as located by Vavasour.

56. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/137, MS, p. 11.

57. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/158, MS, pp. 148-49.

58. Ibid., p. 102.

59. H.B.C.A., B.223/d/161, MS, pp. 120—21.


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