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Peter Skene Ogden (alternately Skeene, Skein, or Skeen; baptised 12 February 1790 – 27 September 1854 [1]) was a British-Canadian fur trader and an early explorer of what is now British Columbia and the Western United States.
The facility is named in honor of Peter Skene Ogden who first entered the Crooked River Valley while leading a Hudson's Bay Company trapping party in 1825. Although no mention is made at the park itself, it was also the site of one of Oregon's most sensational murders, [2] which led to the conviction of Jeannace June Freeman of first degree murder.
Portrait of Peter Skene Ogden, Western re-discoverer of the Three Sisters, circa 1854. The first Westerner to discover the Three Sisters was the explorer Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1825. He describes "a number of high mountains" south of Mount Hood. [86]
Peter Skene Ogden Secondary is a public high school in 100 Mile House in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The school is administered as part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin . It is a grade 8 to 12 facility enrolling approximately 565 students. [ 1 ]
According to Jackson's later testimony in court, Freeman beat Jackson's son Larry to death in a fit of rage. Jackson agreed to conceal the crime and go along with killing her daughter Martha. They discarded both children's bodies in Crooked River Gorge, at Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint.
Miles Morris Goodyear (February 24, 1817 – November 12, 1849) was an American fur trader and mountain man who built and occupied Fort Buenaventura in what is now the city of Ogden, Utah. [1] The fort was located approximately two miles south of the confluence of the Weber and Ogden rivers and about one-quarter mile west of the end of Ogden's ...
Peter Skene Ogden (1790–1854), born in Quebec, Canada, was a British-Canadian fur trader, under the company of John Jacob Astor; Caleb Ogden Halsted (1792–1860), merchant and banker who was a president of the Bank of the Manhattan Company; William Butler Ogden (1805–1877), 1st Mayor of Chicago, was one of the richest men in Chicago
In May 1825, he met Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson's Bay Company in Weber Canyon. After returning to St. Louis in 1826, he became an employee of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company. He continued his trapping ventures, as well as leading AFC men on ventures on the upper Missouri River.