JOTTINGS OF PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF A PIONEER OF 1850: By GEORGE E. COLE ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. David Samuelsen - July 2002 ************************************************************************ JOTTINGS OF PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF A PIONEER OF 1850 By GEORGE E. COLE Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1905 by GEO. E. COLE, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington WHOSE COURAGE, ENERGY AND PERSEVERANCE MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR OREGON TO BECOME AMERICAN STATES Preface The contents of this Book, with a few alterations, first appeared in a series of articles in the Sunday Oregonian of 1901. This is not a history or a chronicle, but the recollections of incidents that came under my personal observation, which, at this time, may be of interest, both to the pioneers who are left and to the new corners. G. E. C.