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Show CALLAWAY, HOOCIi FRANCIS ' ;sts of civilization. In 1821 the long wnflict and rivalry between the Xorth-3 Xorth-3 Hudson's Bay companies was ended n of the companies, e coalition -was rffected Ojrden and were in the Wasatch region. Peter i (after whom Ogden City i named) i subject, the son of Chief Justice Oj?-'c. Oj?-'c. Thi3 is the Ogden who in our his-tioned his-tioned as the discoverer of Humboldt ad been discovered and was well known irds long before Ogden was born. Og-union Og-union of the English Fur companies, purchasing ayent of the Hudson's Ear aining in his entourage the French ppers, hunters and traders of the mpany who had followed him from vild and reckless at times, these hardy larkable for obedience to their super-unequalled super-unequalled skill in handling the pad-ngth pad-ngth and endurance and their facil-ig facil-ig themselves to the habits and pe-the pe-the Indian tribes. They were the ' rangers and canoe men of their time, re the advent of the American trap-id trap-id frontiersmen, had penetrated vast ipped the beaver streams of the great e help of these men Ogden had accu-;.s accu-;.s company a vast supply of valuable is said, $175,000. At about this time and Henry witli their hunters en- i Iiiver valley region and began moT-.'s moT-.'s territory. ji Bay chief, fearing for his precious j them by night from the ware-I ware-I -cached them in a neighboring val- - valley, from the French word . a hiding place). d some of Ogden's men, stole the 'ng to the Missouri, sold his rich lis and laid the foundations of a 'After this misfortune Ogden broke j Mo the Columbia region. He died. ; j 1854, in the 60th year of his age. i Thomas Fitzpatrick, remained in ! ain region as an independent trap-j trap-j When he joined the Rocky moun-i moun-i y.in 1824 he was welcomed as one traightest, squarest" men of the ( of hia great knowledge of the country, his familiarity with the and desert, his dauntless courage sty in all his dealings reached the j ernment which invited him to join I fce and made him a military cap- f itinued on Page 5.) . ! |
