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Binding the Nation : Expanding Nation : Letters from the Territories : Oregon Territory Letter

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Oregon Territory Letter


Fort Vancouver
Oregon Territory, Nov. 9th, 1849

We have been in Winter Quarters about a month. The company Officers all live in a long one story log house built by ourselves. . . . Our accommodations are rude enough, but still they still afford us a good protection against the winter rains which have already commenced to pour upon us.

—Theodore Talbot


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