"McLoughlin, the Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company's fort in Vancouver, Wash., receives more attention than any other figure. Long does a good job in revealing McLoughlin's personality, his reactions to crimes, and his advocation of crime penalties. Parts of this information will be new to many readers. Similarly, the author's treatment of the murders of the Whitmans and the later hanging of five American Indians for that crime also includes material fresh to most readers."
"Long likewise treats conflicts between Indians and whites. His sympathies, as is true of most recent historians, lie with the Indigenous people. He shows how legislation, territorial and community experiences, and individual actions by many whites were often illegal and usually undermining in their treatment of Indians. Laws in Oregon and Washington up to 1870 remained largely negative toward American Indians."
The period from the 1820s to the late 1860s featured diverse crimes and punishments across the Pacific Northwest, spanning present-day Oregon and Washington. Prominent figures such as Dr. John McLoughlin, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and Joe Meek engaged with or became victims of felonies and penalties, influencing limited development of jails and penitentiaries. McLoughlin's role at the Hudson's Bay Company in Vancouver involved responses to crime and advocacy for penalties. The Whitmans' murders and subsequent hanging of five American Indians marked significant legal and communal tensions. Territorial legislation and local actions frequently treated Indigenous peoples negatively through 1870.
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