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...

Long, long after, When settlers put up beam and rafter, They asked of the birds: "Who gave this fruit? Who watched this fence till the ...

Tribal names, as the names Native, Native American, Indian, American Indian, Native American Indian, are inventions more often than not. Som...

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...

As is true for perhaps ten percent of my books, I know neither when nor how I acquired Polk: The Diary of a President, 1845-1849 (1968 [192...