Peter Skene Ogden, 1793-1854, was an important figure in the early fur trade who ranged over all the West. In the fall of 1825, he led a Hudson's Bay Company trapping party on the first recorded journey into central Oregon, crossing the country to the north and east into the Crooked River Valley not far above here. He was in the vicinity again in 1826 bound for the Harney Basin and the Klamath region, where he discovered Mount Shasta. He also rescued the survivors of the Whitman Massacre, and Ogden, Utah, was named for him.