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George Washington Bush Pioneer Defender on Oregon Trail
George Washington Bush, a free man of color from Pennsylvania, moved to Missouri then fled banishment of free Negroes to Oregon. He and the Simmons party built a saw mill at Tumwater in 1847 financed with silver from Oregon Trail travels, aiding the wagon train. Bush and his family helped the ill and poor along the journey.
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George Washington Bush
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Bush
Oregon Country
Simmons
Oregon Trail
Oregon
Poap Adduesayy A.bafoum Oy
Hudson’s Bay Company
Almington
George Bush
Great Britain
Britannia
Woods
Columbia River
Michael Simmons
G. W. Bush
Washington Timber Country
Des Chutes
Tumwater
New Market
Fort Vancouver
Whitman
Puget Sound
Olympia
George Bush Green
United States
Territory of