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The reports of this expedition directed migration and western settlement toward the Oregon Country, which had previously been merely a rendezvous for trappers. On December 16th 1843, while traveling from the Dalles of the Columbia to Sutters Fort on the Sacramento, the party struggled from the snowy heights of Winter Ridge to the temperate shores of Summer Lake through the canyon directly west of this spot, and gave those names as a lasting reminder of their escape from the snow-bound plateau. The expedition included Bt. Capt. John C. Fremont, U.S.A., Chas. Preuss, topographer, Christopher Kit Carson, scout, Thomas Fitzpatrick, guide, Alexander Godey, hunter, Theodore Talbot, Oliver Beaulieu, Baptiste Bernier, John G. Campbell, Manuel Chapman, Ransom Clark, Philibert Courteau, Baptiste Derosier, Jacob Dodson, L. Maxwell, Louis Menard, Louis Montreuil, Samuel Neal, Francois Pera, Raphael Proue, Baptiste Tabeau, Charles Taplin, Charles Towns, Joseph Verrot, Tiery Wright, and Louis Zindel.
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