They opened an extensive trade with the southern tribes in furs and peltries. and crossed the mountains at various intervals during the year. The valley of the Willamette was their public highway to toe north. and their depot during the greater part of the yearwhere they left their property and families. After the emigration. under John Applegate. in 1843. they found it profitable. during particular seasons. to work as farm laborers. and soon became well skilled in the arts of husbandry. Their services were regarded as more valuable than those of any other class of Indians. Desirous. however. of pushing their conquest still farther south than they had yet penetrated. so as to obtain the same Supremacy over the Shasta and Rogue River tribes which they had already obtained over the Umpquas. they proffered their aid to the whites on the occasion of every outbreak or manifestation of war.
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