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Ref: Wagons West – The Epic Story of America’s Overland Trails: “Those who went directly to the long-establishedHudson’s Bay Company Post at Fort Walla Walla, some twenty-five miles to the west, found less to complain of.The commandant here, Archibald Mc Kinley, really exerted himself for the emigrants even though, in common withall fort commanders, he had little to sell or trade.”(369) Ref: Wikipedia: “Dr. John Mc Loughlin, baptized Jean-Baptiste Mc Loughlin, (October 19, 1784 – September3, 1857) was the Chief Factor of the Columbia Fur District the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver..CHAPTER XXIII(370) Author: Journal of an Exploring Tour - Beyond the Rocky Mountains.(371) This A. B. Smith, probably, was Asa B. Smith.Ref: The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, Vol. I by Joseph Gaston: “Rev. Asa B. Smith and wife, also onbehalf of the Presbyterians came overland and settled among the Nez Perces, at a station on the Clearwater River in1839, and which he was compelled to abandon on account of the hostility of the Indians in 1841. Mr. Smith was thefirst person to make up a vocabulary and grammar of the Nez Perce language.”(372) Ref: Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: “having become firm or hard, esp. by increase of fibrouselements (~tissue).”CHAPTER XXIV(373) Ref: John Kirk Townsend (1809-1851) – Oregon History Project: “Townsend was born in Philadelphia in1809. At 10 years of age, Townsend entered the Friends’ Boarding School at Westtown. The school had a reputationfor emphasizing science and Townsend early became interested in ornithology. In 1833, Townsend joined theAcademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the American Philosophical Society. In 1834, Philadelphianaturalist ThomasNuttall invited Townsend to join Nathaniel Wyeth’s expedition to Oregon as an ornithologist. Townsend exploredthe surrounding area: Sauvie Island, the Willamette River, Walla Walla, and the Blue Mountains. Townsend madeplans to publish his own catalogue of species, but the project did not come to fruition. Townsend did, however,publish his travel journals in 1839 and 1840. John Kirk Townsend died in 1851 from exposure to the arsenic in abird preservation powder that he had developed.”CHAPTER XXV(374) Ref: Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: means: “lying lapped over each other in regular order (~scales)”(375) Ref: Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: means: “linear and tapering to a fine point ((a ~ leaf).”(376) Ref: klootchman definition [English Definition Dictionary] Reverso: “klootchman, n pl, -mans, - men(NorthwesternCanadian) an Indian woman, squaw, (Also called) klootch, klooch – from Chinook.”