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The work actually contains two short journals of company trader Alexander Roderick McLeod to Oregon’s coastal rivers as well as Ogden’s journal. Even the latter expedition spent most of its time in central and southern Oregon and northern California, and was never connected with the “Snake Country,” if the term is intended in any ...
"Journal of Peter Skene Ogden; Snake Expedition, 1828-1829" is an article from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Volume 11. View more articles from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society. View this article on JSTOR. View this article's JSTOR metadata.
PETER SKENE OGDEN JOURNAL, 1827-1828 263 Snakes form into a body prior to their startin,g for buffalo; they collect camasse for the journey across the mountains. Their camp is 300 tents. In spring they scatter from this place for the salmon and horse thieving expeditions. Crossed streams that discharge in River au Ma.lade. Sylvaille and party ap
THE PETER SKENE OGDEN JOURNALS. 203 smith'", Sylvaille's river is identical with the present Silver's or Silvie's river of the Malheur Lake region of Oregon. That this original name still remains in abbreviated form is evidenced by a letter dated May 7th, I9Io, from an early settler (1873) of Harney County, Mr. M. Fitzgerald, who
Peter Skene Ogden was a chief trader with the Hudson's Bay Company. In the period 1824-1829, he led five trapping expeditions to the "Snake Country" -- the upper reaches of the Columbia. Here are journals from each of those five expeditions.
Dec 3, 2020 · How Ogden got its name. Prior to the arrival of the Mormon pioneers, the Ogden Valley was recognized by Indians as a special place with abundant game. The first detailed descriptions of the area came in 1824 from fur trapper Peter Skene Ogden who was known for his small, stout size, violent temper and mean streak. Ogden Valley.
Peter Skene Ogden and his chief clerk, William Kittson, kept daily journals of this important fur brigade. Both journals are important historical documents, for they constitute the earliest written descriptions of the area traversed—Cache, Ogden, and Weber valleys—and the daily operations of a large company of
