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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.
Old Trapper. John Day was a fur trapper and frontiersman who worked for both the Pacific Fur Company and the North West Company. Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, about 1770, when he grew up, he made his way to Missouri via Kentucky in 1798, settling in Franklin County.
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. Little is known of his….
Jun 29, 2016 · With scant historic documentation to explain it, trapper John Day became legend in the region. His name was forever imprinted on the land through the John Day River and its basin, the community of John Day, and John Day Dam on the Columbia.
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. Biography. John Day was born in Culpeper County, Virginia and came west through Kentucky to Spanish Upper Louisiana (now Missouri) by 1797.
On June 20, 1812, John Day was assigned to accompany Robert Stuart back across the plains to St, Louis with dispatches from Astoria to John Jacob Astor. During the night of July 2, 1812, while encamped near Wapato Island, John Day became 'deranged' and attempted suicide.
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May 22, 2023 · Think Out Loud. Who was John Day? By Dave Miller (OPB) May 22, 2023 9:58 a.m. Broadcast: Monday, May 22. Grant County is one of Oregon’s smallest by population, with a little over 7,000 people....
