Record Details
page 22
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 22 |
| Relation | River in Common |
| Date | 2005-01-12 to 2005-02-16 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 208.156 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | A. Early Tributary Development Early in the 19th century, the Hudson's Bay Company, arriving from Canadian possessions in the north, began trading in furs. Soon the Company undertook a policy of over-trapping in the Wallowas and other mountains south of the Columbia River, trying to discourage the American fur companies from crossing the Rockies. The policy, and the overall economic pressure to strip streams of beaver, caused a collapse in beaver populations from which they have never... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1238 |
