| Abstract: | One of the Pacific Northwest‘s most notable outdoor recreation areas, the "John Day Country" in northeastern Oregon, is named after a native Virginian who was a member of the Astor expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River in 1812. There is little factual information about John Day except that he was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, about 1770. It is known also that in 1810 this tall pioneer "with an elastic step as if he trod on springs" joined John Jacob Astor‘s overland expedition under Wilson Price Hunt to establish a vast fur-gathering network in the Western States based on a major trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River. |
| Genre: | USGS Unnumbered Series |
| ProdID: | 70039219 |
| Citation Author: | Thayer, Thomas P. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | |
| Citation Datum: | |
| Citation Day: | |
| Citation Edition: | |
| Citation Editor: | |
| Citation End Page: | |
| Citation Issue: | |
| Citation Keywords: | |
| Citation Language: | English |
| Citation Larger Work Title: | |
| Citation LatN: | 0450000 |
| Citation LatS: | 0440000 |
| Citation LonE: | -1180000 |
| Citation LonW: | -1200000 |
| Citation Month: | |
| Citation No Pagination: | |
| Citation Number Of Pages: | 24 |
| Citation Online Only Flag: | |
| Citation Phsyical Description: | 23 p. |
| Citation Projection: | |
| Citation Public Comments: | |
| Citation Publisher: | Government Printing Office |
| Citation Series: | General Information Product |
| Citation Series Code: | |
| Citation Series Number: | |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Geologic setting of the John Day Country, Grant County, Oregon; 1977; USGS Unnumbered Series; Thayer, Thomas P. |
| Citation Start Page: | |
| Citation Volume: | |
| Citation Year: | 1977 |
| Type: | citation/reference |
| Text: | Geologic setting of the John Day Country, Grant County, Oregon; 1977; USGS Unnumbered Series; Thayer, Thomas P. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/70039219/report-thumb.jpg |
| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/70039219/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1977 14:01 -0600 |
| Publisher: | Government Printing Office |
