As chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Oregon Country, John McLoughlin ruled a vast fur-trade territory, yet he fed and helped the American emigrants who poured in during the joint occupancy of the 1840s. Holman, a director of the Oregon Historical Society, tells his life and the long, bitter dispute over his land claim at Oregon City.
A warm defence of a man many pioneers remembered with gratitude, essential for the history of the Pacific Northwest. Download the free EPUB.