Overland journey from Oregon City to Vancouver and Salt Lake City

The account covers an 1851 trip from Oregon to Salt Lake City by way of Vancouver, the Columbia River, the Blue Mountains, Fort Boise, and Fort Hall. Jennings stayed at Fort Vancouver and wrote about the Rifle Regiment, the Hudson's Bay Company, and Indians. From Vancouver he went by river with R. Wilson, A. McKay, A. McArthur, K. Pritchette, and Lt. W. Wood, and later with Maj. J. Owen. The diary describes Mormons and notes figures in Oregon history. There is a sketch of Mt. Hood.

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