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Jun 19, 2022 · In May 1792, American merchant sea captain Robert Gray sailed into the Columbia River, becoming the first recorded European to navigate into it. The voyage, conducted on the Columbia Rediviva, a privately owned ship, was eventually used as a basis for the United States' claim on the Pacific Northwes
Jul 28, 2016 · In 1791/2 Captain Robert Gray became the first European to sail the Columbia River, entering at Cape Disappointment to trade with local Chinook. Lewis and Clark visited in 1805 and found the Chinook ready to trade.
Robert Gray traded furs on the Northwest Coast and discovered the Columbia River, 1788 and 1792.
1775-1780. First smallpox outbreak among Oregon’s indigenous people. 1778. Capt. James Cook makes landfall at Cape Foulweather and discovers fur wealth of Northwest Coast. 1788. Capt. Robert Gray trades with tribes in Tillamook Bay. Marius Lopius, African traveling with Gray, probably killed at Tillamook. 1792.
Jan 13, 2003 · The various branches of Grays River rise in the Willapa Hills on the boundary ridge between Lewis and Wahkiakum Counties in southwest Washington, draining 124 square miles before flowing into the Columbia at Grays Bay. Both are named for Robert Gray.
2 comments Toggle Discussion of a proposal to merge this article into Robert Gray (sea-captain) subsection. ... 5 historical dispute re Broughton/Gray. 38 comments.
The Hit and Run History crew roves across New England in search of Captain Robert Gray. Although the Columbia Expedition is Gray's claim to fame, the Rhode I...
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