John Day

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John Day (abt. 1770-February 16, 1820) was an American hunter and fur trapper in the old Oregon Country, which term generally designated the area then jointly occupied by the United States and Great Britain, including present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, western Montana and southern British Columbia. Day was born in Culpeper County, Virginia and came west through Kentucky and to Spanish Upper Louisiana (now Missouri) by 1797. Wikipedia

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• Wikipedia

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  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Day_%28trapper%29

• gesswhoto

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• John Day Dam Pamphlet

  Power from John Day will be needed in the Northwest as fast as it can be made available.
  www.ccrh.org/comm/umatilla/primary/jdpamphl.htm

• USGS: Geologic Setting of...

  There is little factual information about John Day except that he was born in Culpepper County, Va. about 1770.
  www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/geology/publications/...

• John Day Fossil Beds NM:...

  The upper John Day country was remote, and familiar to the Western Columbia Sahaptins and Northern Paiute alone until well into the nineteenth century.
  www.nps.gov/archive/joda/hrs/hrs2.htm