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This center of destruction was in the Willamette Valley. But for many years prior to the beginning of the operations of the "Wolf Organization" the Hudson's Bay Company had established forts and trading stations over all the country, wherever fur-gathering Indians could be found, and vast numbers of these animals were killed.
This included the "Canoe Indians" of the Sound and of the Oregon sea-coast, whose flat heads, greasy squat bodies, and crooked legs were in marked contrast with their skill and dexterity in managing their canoes and fish-spears; the hardy Indians of the Willamette Valley and the Cascade Range; and the bold, predatory riders of eastern Oregon and Washington, buffalo hunters and horse tamers, passionately fond, long before the advent of the white man, of racing and gambling.
Some years before, Villard, who had long been interested in Western railroad enterprises and who had become prominent through his activities in connection with the Kansas and Pacific Railway, had succeeded in forming the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company as a combination of steamboat lines operating on the Willamette and Columbia rivers in Oregon, with an ocean line connecting Portland and San Francisco.
And now Cecil was all expectation, on the alert for the first sight of the bridge. "Shall we see it soon?" he asked the young Willamette. "When the sun is there, we shall see it," replied the Indian, pointing to the zenith. The sun still lacked several hours of noon, and Cecil had to restrain his impatience as best he could.
Some we bought an' most they stole, but no rancher cares fer horses here an' now. "We come through the Klamaths, ye see, an' on south the old horse trail up from the Spanish country, which only the Injuns knows. My boys say they kin take us ter the head o' the Willamette. "So ye did get the gold! Eh, sir?" said Bridger, his eyes narrowing. "The tip the gal give ye was a good one?"
Ere autumn had yellowed all the foliage back east in gentler climes, we crossed the shoulders of the Blue Mountains and came into the Valley of the Walla Walla; and so passed thence down the Columbia to the Valley of the Willamette, three hundred miles yet farther, where there were then some slight centers of our civilization which had gone forward the year before. Here were some few Americans.
But even after it becomes narrower the river frequently widens into broad, open, lake-like expanses, which are studded with lovely islands, and wherever the shore lowers you see, beyond, grand mountain ranges snow-clad and amazingly fine. The banks are precipitous nearly all the way to the junction of the Willamette, and there is singularly little farming country on the immediate river.
The rain-drops still sparkled on the windows and on the green grass, and the last roses and chrysanthemums hung their beautiful heads heavily beneath them; but there was to be no more rain. Oregon City's mighty barometer the Falls of the Willamette was declaring to her people by her softened roar that the morrow was to be fair. Mrs.
And among them all, conscious of his supremacy, moved the keen and imperious Willamette. They all gazed wonderingly at Cecil, "the white man," the "long beard," the "man that came from the Great Spirit," the "shaman of strong magic," for rumors of Cecil and his mission had spread from tribe to tribe. Though accustomed to savage sights, this seemed to Cecil the most savage of all.
In the fall of the Bridge they saw the hand of the Great Spirit, a visitation of God. And so Willamette and tributary alike heard the news with fear and apprehension. Only Multnomah, who knew the message before it was spoken, listened with his wonted composure.
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