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Jason Lee: Mission Bottom
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In March of 1836, Lee wrote to his mentor, Dr. Fisk, to complain that without the able assistance of tradesmen and farmers to oversee the day-to-day details of running the mission, there was little time available for the business of religion. Lee's letter resulted in reinforcements in 1837 and 1838. The first arrived by ship on May 28, 1837. Among the new arrivals were such early notables as Elijah White, who would later return to the United States to lead the 1842 migration to Oregon; Alanson Beers and W.H. Wilson, who were in Oregon's first government; and Lot Whitcomb, who built the first steamboat in Oregon and founded the town of Milwaukie.
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The Methodist Church replaced Lee in 1843 for not converting enough Indians to justify the vast expenditures needed to maintain his missions. He sought vindication for the last two years of his life and died in Canada on March 2, 1845. In 1906 his body was moved to a Salem cemetery. Lee's statue was placed in the National Hall of Fame by Oregon in 1954.
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Lee contracted with Nathaniel Wyeth to accompany him on his second trading expedition. Supplies for the mission were forwarded to Oregon on Wyeth's brig, the May Dacre. The Wyeth-Lee Party set out with the 1834 fur caravan of Captain William Sublette, which ... included naturalists J.K. Townsend and Thomas Nuttall.
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