In January 2011, I posted " Young's Cauldron ." These brief two paragraphs were written in a few minutes during lunch a couple...

Read this entry in a primary source that was reprinted in the Oregon Historical Quarterly many years ago: 11 February 1836 [I]n complia...

Oregon in the 1830s was not a wholly lawless frontier, but with joint occupation by the United States and by England, and with a small non-I...

In early 1836, Ewing Young purchased a large iron cauldron from Courtney Walker. Walker had the job of disposing of the goods left behind by...