river valleys, the Siskiyou Trail provided the shortest practical travel path between early settlements in California and Oregon.

Development

The earliest European or European-American visitors along the Siskiyou Trail were likely hunters and trappers connected with the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) who, in the 1820s, began to travel the rivers of Southern Oregon and Northern California in search of fur and pelts.

The HBC had established itself on the Columbia River,

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