and mules and cattle they were bring eight long to feed and 25 men including kid carson and thomas fitzpatrick and charles price. the primary reason of mapping this oregon trail and providing the detail it takes to get out here on a wagon was to populate washington and oregon so the population would be such that we would not have a military conflict with the british. they were pretty well encamped here with the hudson bay company. there were designs by the british to have this territory. congress was interested in claiming this part of the northwest. in the november of 1843, after he had done his mission here, accomplished his work, he makes a decision not to stay there not to stay there for the winter but makes a decision to move south. they started on november 25 1843. they came south and they went through here and indian head canyon camp and down to seeks junction camp and where we are after being at the turnout camp where we are right now is near bend. after passing through several miles, the trail entered a beautiful pine forest for which we traveled for several hours. about 4:00, descend

consisted of 104 horses and mules, cattle that they brought along, 25 men, including kit carson and thomas fitzpatrick and charles preuss, who was a photographer. -- the cartographer. the purpose was to populate -- the purpose of providing the detail it takes to get out here on a wagon was to populate oregon and washington so that the population would be such that we would not have a military conflict with the british. they were pretty well encamped here with the hudson bay company. there were designs by the british to have this territory. but congress was very interested in claiming this part of the northwest. in november of 1843, after he had done his mission here, accomplished his work, he was sitting and made the decision not to stay there for the winter, but to move south. they started out and came south they went through indianhead canyon camp. down to the junction camp, sligh creek, and then where we are after being at the turnout camp, where we are right now, near bend. after passing for several miles over plains, the trail and are doing beautiful pine forest, which we traveled for several hou