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Bill McGarvey and the Klamath River Indians (25 pages)
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‘French-Canadian fur trapper, ee mee
*Pierre Navarre. The incident
“+ and the headgear — so +”
‘amazed the Indians living
foutside the walls of the Fort
that they were-described in
‘tales passed on orally for more:
a a centtiry. %
"a
ne Tall Strangers
. Ah, wa’d the pow’r
the gifties gi’e us
/ to see oursel’s
‘as others see us!
— Robert Burns
By Glenn J.
Farris
ohn Work had his
hands full. It was
April 1833 and, as
leader of a Hudson's Bay
Company fur hunting
party sent from Fort Vancouver to the Bonaventura (as the Sacramento
River Valley was sometimes called), he’d been
further ordered to investigate the north coast of
California to learn if there
were beaver in the streams
leading down to the Pacific Ocean. But for the
moment there were additional and more pressing
concerns. Many of Work’s
people were ill with fever
and chills. Some were deserting his party to join the
Californio population, the
most recent desertion a
spunky young wife who
found life on the trail less
agreeable than the easygoing existence she had observed while in Sonoma.
Then there was the unexpected presence of Michel Laframboise’s contingent. Michel, a headstrong
French Canadian reputed
to have an Indian wife in
every village he visited,
had slipped into California
with his own hunters
against orders, eventually meeting and joining
Work’s party. Michel was
always in trouble with the
Hudson’s Bay Company
administration, but he was
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