To the Promised Land: A History of Oregon Government and Politics

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479 Notes Abbreviations OHQ Oregon Historical Quarterly OHS Oregon Historical Society PHQ Pacific Northwest Quarterly WHQ Washington Historical Quarterly Preface 1. Malcolm Clark, Jr., EdenSeekers:TheSettlementof Oregon,1818-1862 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981), 58. 2. Robert C. Clark, History of the Willamette Valley, Oregon (Chicago: The S. J. Clark Publishing Company, 1927), 405. 3. Dorothy Johansen and Charles M. Gates, Empire of the Columbia: A History of the Pacific Northwest (New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1957), 290. Introduction 1. Brent Walth, Fire at Eden’s Gate, Tom McCall and the Oregon Story (Portland: OHS Press, 1994), 2. 2. John M. Blum, Edmund S. Morgan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., et al., The National Experience (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981), 284. 3. Malcolm Clark, Eden Seeker, 5, 7. Chapter 1: “Who’s for a Divide?” The Oregon Country, 1834-49 1. Clark, History of the Willamette Valley, 270. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid., 276. 4. Mirth T. Kaplan, “Courts, Counselors, and Cases: The Judiciary of Oregon’s Provisional Government,” OHQ, 62 (1961):121. 5. LaFayette Grover, The Oregon Archives—Public papers of Oregon, OHS Library, 1853, 11. 6. Grover, OHS Library, 14. 7. Charles H. Carey, General History of Oregon (Portland: Metropolitan Press, 1935), 330. 8. Grover, OHS Library, 13. 9. Clark, History of the Willamette Valley, 308. 480 notes to pages 14-36 10. Frederick V. Holman, “A Brief History of the Oregon Provisional Government and What Caused it’s Formation,” an address delivered at Champoeg, Oregon, May 2, 1912, printed in OHQ, 13 (1912), 134. 11. Leslie M. Scott, “First Taxes in Oregon, 1844,” OHQ, 31(1930):1. 12. Clark, Eden Seekers, 208. 13. Harvey W. Scott, “The Formation and Administration of the Provisional Government of Oregon,” an address given at the unveiling of the Champoeg Monument, May 2, 1901, published in OHQ, 2 (1901): 114. 14. Clark, History of the Willamette Valley, 448. 15. Ibid., 450. 16. Arthur L. Throckmorton, Oregon Argonauts, Merchant Adventurers on the Western Frontier (Portland: OHS Press, Portland, 1961), 100. Chapter 2: From Territory to State, 1848-59 1. Johansen and Gates, Empire of the Columbia, 293. 2. Guide to Oregon Provisional and Territorial Government Records, Oregon State Archives, 1990, 81. 3. Clark, Eden Seekers, 230. 4. Clark, History of the Willamette Valley, 405. 5. Johansen and Gates, Empire of the Columbia, 291. 6. Clark, History of the Willamette Valley, 454. 7. Johansen and Gates, Empire of the Columbia, 291. 8. Leslie M. Scott, “Influence of American Settlement Upon the Oregon Boundary Treaty of 1846,” OHQ, 29 (1928): 227. 9. Jesse S. Douglas, “Origins of the Population of Oregon of 1850,” PNQ, 41 (1950):100. 10. Dan E. Clark, “Pioneer Pastimes,” OHQ, 57 (1956): 333. 11. F. G. Young, “Financial History of Oregon,” OHQ, 8 (1907), 140. 12. Thomas W. Prosch, “Notes from a Government Document on Oregon Conditions in the Fifties,” OHQ, 8 (1907), 194. 11. 13. Charles Carey, The Oregon Constitution and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1857 (Salem, Oregon: State Printing Department, 1926), 8. 14. Walter C. Woodward, The Rise and Early History of Political Parties in Oregon, 1843-1868 (Portland, Oregon: J.K. Gill, 1913), 39. 15. Ibid., 40. 16. Florence Walls, “The Letters of Asahel Bush to Matthew P. Deady, 1851-63” (Reed College bachelor’s thesis, May 1941) and Woodward, The Rise and Early History, 58 (footnote). 17. Ibid., vii. 18. David Alan Johnson, Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890 (University of California Press, 1992), 57. 19. Ibid., 64. 20. Walls, “The Letters of Asahel Bush,” xix and 20, and Woodward, The Rise and Early History, 84. 21. Woodward, The Rise and Early History, 5. 22. George Williams, “Political History of Oregon from 1853 to 1865,” OHQ, 2 (1901): 4. notes to pages 36-59 481 23. Woodward, The Rise and Early History, 66. 24. Ibid., 73. 25. Ibid., 90. 26. Ibid., 92. 27. Ibid., 93. 28. T. W. Davenport, “Slavery Question in Oregon,” OHQ, 9 (September 1908): 226. 29. Woodward, The Rise and Early History, 94. 30. Ibid., 95. 31. Ibid., 102. 32. Ibid., 114. 33. Ibid., 114. 34. Ibid., 112. 35. Ibid., 116. 36. Charles Carey, “Oregon’s Constitutional Proceedings, 1857,” OHQ, 13 (1912): 27. 37. David Alan Johnson, 67. 38. Woodward, The Rise and Early History, 118. 39. Ibid, 119. 40. Robert Johannsen, Frontier Politics and the Sectional Conflict: The Pacific Northwest on the Eve of the Civil...