gold; and it was
Fremont who led the revolution there against the Mexicans, and who
secured the country's independence.
The explorations of Lewis and Clark, early in the century, had made the
country along the Columbia river known to the East in a dim way, but it
was so distant and so inaccessible that it excited little interest. Just
before the second war with England, John Jacob Astor had attempted to
carry out a far-reaching plan for the development of the country and the
securing of its great fur trade, but the outbreak of the war had stopped
all efforts in that direction, and Astor never took them up again.
Meanwhile through Canada, the Hudson Bay Company, a great English
concern engaged in the fur trade, had extended its stations to the
Pacific coast, and was quietly taking possession of the country.
In 1834, the American board of missions, learning of the need for a
missionary among the Oregon Indians, appointed Marcus Whitman to the
work. Whitman was at that time thirty-two years of age and was just
about to be married. His betrothed agreed to accompany him on his
perilous mission, and, after great difficulty, he secured an associate
in the person of Rev. H.H. Spalding, also just married. What a bridal
trip that was! At Pittsburg, George Catlin, who knew the western Indians
better than any living man, having spent years among them, warned them
of the folly of attempting to take women across the plains; at
Cincinnati, they were greeted by William Moody, only forty-five years of
age and yet the first white man born there; at the frontier town of St.
Louis, they joined a hunting expedition up the Missouri, and by June 6,
1836, were at Laramie.
A month later, they crossed the Great Divide by the South Pass,
"discovered," six years later, by Fremont; and toward the end of July,
they came to the great mountain rendezvous of traders and trappers high
in the mountains near Fort Hall. Some of those men had not seen a white
woman for a quarter of a century. You can imagine, then,
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.