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- John Day (ca. 1770 – February 16, 1820) was an American hunter and fur trapper in the Pacific Northwest, including present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Western Montana and Southern British Columbia.
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John Day (ca. 1770 – February 16, 1820) was an American hunter and fur trapper in the Pacific Northwest, including present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Western Montana and Southern British Columbia.
John Day was engaged by the Wilson Price Hunt or 'Overland Party' of the Pacific Fur Company (Astorians) as a hunter in the fall of 1810. They were to cross the Plains and Rocky Mountains during 1811, and arrive in Astoria during the winter or early spring of 1812.
But his story does tell us something about European-American settlement in the Pacific Northwest. Greg Shine is a historian and writer based in Portland. He wrote about John Day for the Oregon ...
John Day was an American hunter who came to Oregon in 1812 as a straggler from the Pacific Fur Company’s overland expedition to Astoria.
John Day is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Ahishor Solomon and produced by K Asif, Anjum Rizvi and Aatif Khan. The film features Naseeruddin Shah, Randeep Hooda, Vipin Sharma, and Shernaz Patel as main characters.
John Day is a city located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Canyon City [6] in Grant County, Oregon, United States, at the intersection of U.S. Routes 26 and 395. The city was named for the nearby John Day River, which, along with Dayville, had been named for a Virginia member of the 1811 Astor Expedition, John Day. [7]
Day does not conform to the modern image or even seventeenth century image of a successful printer. In fact, he was something of a dinosaur: impressive but doomed to extinction. No single printer could print works on the scale that John Day did alone. After his death, Day's place in the English printing industry would be
