Oregon

D Extent of district, 56-57; origin of name, 56-57; arrival of ships Convoy and Owyhee , 1829, 136; first mi ionaries, 136-142; coming of the settlers, 138-142; provisional government, 143; John Gordon sent to report on its value, 183; incident of his salmon fishing, 183-184; question of ownership, conflicting views of Great Britain and the United States, 62-64. Bib. : Bancroft, History of the North-West Coast ; Nicolay, Oregon Territory ; Foster, Bibliography of Oregon in Mag. of Amer. Hist. , vol. xxv.