Volume 1

Adventures on the Columbia River, including the narrative of a residence of six years on the Western side of the Rocky Mountains, among various tribes of Indians hitherto unknown : together with a journey across the American continent / By Ross Cox.

  • Cox, Ross, 1793-1853.
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Adventures on the Columbia River, including the narrative of a residence of six years on the Western side of the Rocky Mountains, among various tribes of Indians hitherto unknown : together with a journey across the American continent / By Ross Cox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following Narrative embraces a period of six years, five of which were spent among various tribes on the banks of the Columbia River and its tributary streams ; and the remaining portion was occupied in the voy- age outwards, and the journey across the continent. During this period the Author ascended the Columbia nine times, and descended it eight ; wintered among various tribes ; was engaged in several encounters with the In- dians ; was lost fourteen days in a wilderness, and had many other extraordinary escapes.