Title: Fur brigade to the Bonaventura ;
Authors: Work, John,; Malony, Alice Bay,; Maloney, Alice Bay; Bolton, Herbert Eugene,
Date: 1945
Publisher: California historical Society,
Physical description: xxii, 112 pages, 1 leaf : plates, 2 portrait (including frontispiece), folded map ; 28 cm.
Language: English
LC class: F
Contents: Foreword / Herbert Eugene Bolton -- Sources and obligations -- List of illustrations -- Introduction / Alice Bay Maloney -- Part One: Departure from Fort Vancouver ; Up the Columbia River to Fort Nez Perces ; South by horse brigade to Harney Valley ; Head for Bonaventura ; Southwest to Pit River ; Tracks of Americans ; Over the pass in the Cascade Range ; Approach the Sacramento River ; Camp at the Buttes ; Laframboise and Work parties combine ; Marooned by hight water ; Good hunting and grazing ; Cross to west bank of Sacramento River ; Laframboise off to Russian settlement for ammunition ; Some mission horses are purchased ; Approach San Francisco Bay -- Part Two: Hunting and trapping in the Bay region ; Ammunition sought from an American vessel ; Obtained from commandant at San Francisco ; Sonoma Mission ; More visitors ; Much illness ; The Russian establishment at Fort Ross ; Northwest along the coast ; The companies turn inland again ; Laframboise' party returns to Fort Vancouver ; The others proceed southeast to Clear Lake ; Indians hostile ; The Sacramento River again ; Hunting and trapping near the San Joaquin River ; The Indians make trouble ; Heat and mosquitoes ; Return journey commenced ; Epidemic among the Indians. The route retraced ; Hostile Pit River Indians ; McLeod's campsite and Sheep Rock ; North by way of Shasta, Rogue, and Umpqua Rivers ; Laframboise brings help ; In the Willamette Valley ; Back to Fort Vancouver -- Notes to the introduction -- Notes to the Journal -- Appendix A: Bibliography -- Appendix B: Members of John Work's California expedition of 1832-1833 -- Appendix C: The trapping part of Michel Laframboise -- Appendix D: Letter from John Work to the Governor and Council of the Northern Department, March, 1834.
Notes: California historical society. Special publication, no. 19 "500 copies printed." "Reprinted from California historical society quarterly, volume XXII, nos. 2,3, and 4, and volume XXIII, nos. 1 and 2, with the addition of a foreword and appendix D."