John Day was an experienced hunter hired to help the Pacific Fur Company along its westward trek, but an unfortunate encounter left him stranded and exposed.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The John Day River stretches 147 miles through eastern Oregon. It is the longest undammed river in the state.
At the mouth of the John Day River, where it meets the Columbia River, sits a spot where an encounter with a local tribe left John Day and another explorer naked and afraid. That encounter helped earn the river its name.
So who was John Day?
“We don’t know a lot, there are no
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