Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Feather River” in article 3 of The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1860., [Electronic resource]:
...al Government was organized in 1844, Nesmith was elected one of the Territorial Judges.
He went to California in the summer of 1848, with many other Oregonians, worked for some months at mining, on Feather River , and returned to Oregon the next Spring.
He was afterwards Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, but was removed.
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