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Show J Where Ruled the "Emperor I ' of the West" J At Fort Union, N. D., Kenneth Mc-l Mc-l Kenzle once reigned as the "King of the Missouri"; at Bent's Fort in the Arkansas Col. William Bent enjoyed almost unchallenged sovereignty over the vest territory along the Santa Fe trail; but the greatest uncrowned monarch of them all was Dr. John McLoughlin, officially chief factor for the Hudson's Bay company In Oregon but spoken of far and wide as the Emperor of the West," a benevolent despot who for 22 years ruled over an empire 400.000 square miles In ex-ent, ex-ent, of which his post, Fort Vancouver, Vancou-ver, Wash., was the capital. From 16T0 to 1818. though then-retlcally then-retlcally belonging ,0 Great Britain the Pacific northwest was doming by the Hudson's Bay company From 1816 to 1840, under the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, this vast terr torv was under the Joint occupancy of Great Britain and the Unite I Z.t but in reality the word of t e H P O I was the law and thQ n ' C- did not look any t oo HT' Bay American Inter.opL Ve i "on was Dr. McLoug, 1 n 0 IT"' ! company! which had put Jnrth"'est l Astor's Pacific F,.r n Jach business olJZ . of Hudson's Bav ,, "' wltn the I -n crushed t he'o It1 had Northwest organL f the "-as an employe of th leLouS''lIn company but after tlJ ,?rtllwt -as retained by ,lle 6 co"tion he I factor for the Oregon ChIef 1S24 he began this fo """ In .a. 60 miles ah e F '."m- He soon won the t0rla' Indians who called h ? of 'he Chief and ,, J"6 Gt tbem, as well as ove all I 0ver came into contact with hlm ' M Who nan whom no, even ' ma(,t 'ilm the Hudson's Bav Z 6 m of Time lared op.' American missionaries , hfc Sn "tier, from masJ ! Arnerlcan "? when they rrI , m s-country. s-country. Incidentany hd, the new bases, kinJ ofy' hls ard 6. when the H , , 'ngra,"ude. ,n forced hlmtor'S8, wu'd no, folImv '''ecan.ehe gard 'o the AmJ ' Po 'cy In wa3 compi,ratiVei;aDnemlm"lon. h, reI""l him. Hisrn! erS wlo rover .at Miry fi , Oregr,n t0 the fn. 1 1 "hltmn snvl 8,ffiP'e ,rutn I, Hd Ste. n, , iS? 10 uatMh.nt "" n anrouver. who ruled at I i |