Description: Wild Life in Oregon: Being a Stirring Recital of Actual Scenes of Daring and Peril Among the Gigantic Forests and Terrific Rapids of the Columbia River (the Mississippi of the Pacific Slope) : and Giving Live-like Pictures of Terrific Encounters with Savages ... Including a Full, Fair and Reliable History of the State of Oregon, Its Crops, Minerals, Timber Lands, Soil, Fisheries : Its Present Greatness, and Future Vast Capabilities, and Paramount Position Gustavus HinesButler Bros., 1885 - Missions - 437 pages Reverend Gustavus Hines (September 6, 1809 – December 9, 1873) was an American missionary in Oregon Country. Working for the Methodist Mission in what became the state of Oregon, the New York native became involved in early attempts to form a government at the Champoeg Meetings in 1841. Later he served on the board of trustees for the Oregon Institute, which became Willamette University, and wrote several books on Oregon. Early lifeGustavus Hines was born on September 6, 1809, in Herkimer County, New York, to Betsy Round and James Hines.[1] He then entered the ministry in 1832 as part of the Genesee Conference.[2] The Reverend then joined missionary Jason Lee in 1839 as part of the Great Reinforcements for the Methodist Mission in the Oregon Country.[3] OregonReverend Hines arrived in Oregon in 1840 aboard the ship Lausanne.[4] He, his wife Lydia, and his sister-in-law all journeyed to the Pacific Northwest via Cape Horn at the tip of South America.[4] After arrival, he went with Lee to the Umpqua River valley to scout a site for a new mission location.[1] The following year Gustavus Hines was involved with the Champoeg Meetings as a person selected to a committee designed to draft laws that were an attempt at creating a government in the region that was under no formal government at the time.[5] At the February 1841 meetings at David Leslie’s home, Hines served as secretary for the legislative body gathered on French Prairie.[6] These meetings did not create a government in 1841, but did elect Doctor Ira L. Babcock as a judge to deal with the estate of Ewing Young. Two years later continued meetings led the formation of the Provisional Government of Oregon. Hines' younger brother Harvey would journey to Oregon in 1853. In 1842, Lucy Anna Lee was born to Jason Lee's second wife who died shortly after child birth. The Reverend Hines and his wife took in the child and raised her after losing their own daughter, their only child.[1][7] After the closing of the Methodist Mission, Hines returned to New York in 1845.[2] Hines believed that God killed off the native people of Oregon with disease so that whites could take their land. "The hand of Providence is removing them to give place to a people more worthy of so beautiful and fertile a country," he wrote.[8] Later lifeHowever, he would return to what became Oregon Territory in 1853.[2] There he was involved as a trustee for Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, including work on the committee that designed Waller Hall.[9] Gustavus Hines also wrote several books before dying in Oregon City, but buried at Lee Mission Cemetery in Salem.[2][4] He died on December 9, 1873.[1] Works authoredOregon and Its Institutions; Comprising a Full History of the Willamette University. Carlton & Porter, 1868.A Voyage Round the World: With a History of the Oregon Mission and Notes of Several Years Residence on the Plains Bordering the... George H. Derby & Co., Buffalo: 1850.Wild life in Oregon:... Hurst & Co., New York: 1881. Common terms and phrasesAmerican anchor appeared appointed arrived Astoria Baker's Bay beautiful boat breeze called canoe Canton Cape Disappointment Captain Cascade Champoeg chiefs China Chinese Clatsop Plains coast Columbia river consequence continued Dalls distance dollars doubtless encamped English exceedingly excitement falls favor feet fifty foreigners Fort Vancouver forty harbor Hawaiian Hong Kong Honolulu horses Hudson's Bay Company hundred Indians interest Jason Lee Kamehameha III Kayuse king labor land latitude laws leave Macao miles missionaries morning mouth native navigation Nez Perces night o'clock Oahu Oregon mission Pacific ocean passed persons plains portion preach present proceeded purpose received Red Wolf residents returned rocks Rocky Mountains Sabbath sail sand Sandwich Islands savage settlement ship shore side soon thousand tion took trade tribe Umpqua Vancouver vessel voyage Walla Walla-Walla Wallamette river Wallamette valley wind
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