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The difinitive biography of Ranald MacDonald (1824-94), an Old Oregon Country resident who entered forbidden Japan in 1848 at great risk of death and certain imprisonment.
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Noted regional author Jo Ann Roe has written the definitive biography of Ranald MacDonald (1824-94), an Old Oregon Country resident who entered forbidden Japan in 1848 at great risk of death and certain imprisonment. MacDonald was the son of a Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) official and his Indian wife from the Chinook tribe. In the 1830s, as a youngster at the HBC's Ft. Vancouver and Red River schools, MacDonald became fascinated with stories about the little-known Japanese. This interest, no doubt, was stimulated by reports in 1833-34 of storm-swept Japanese sailors shipwrecked on the Olympic Peninsula and captured by Indians, but later released to HBC officials.Consequently, in 1848, 24-year-old MacDonald arranged with the captain of an American whaling ship to be cast off in a rowboat on the northern Japanese coast. Interned but escaping execution, MacDonald was ordered to teach English to Japanese students. After nearly a year in captivity, he received permission to leave Japan in 1849 with other American sailors stranded on the forbidden coast. Later, several of MacDonald's Japanese students interpreted for Commodore Perry when the U.S. Navy forced a not entirely unwilling Japan to open its doors to outsiders in the 1850s.
MacDonald next traveled over much of Asia, Europe, and Canada, before returning to the Pacific Northwest in 1858, where he resided for the rest of his life, but not without adventure. MacDonald joined a daring exploration of Vancouver Island, and became involved in other developments in the Pacific Northwest region. Today, his grave in northeast Washington is recognized as a state park heritage site. In Japan on Rishiri Island, Japanese historical enthusiasts have erected a monument and interpretive marker to commemorate the site where the brave Oregonian landed.
Contents
Foreword
Chapter I: Columbia River Beginnings
Chapter II: At Fort Vancouver
Chapter III: Exciting Travels for Ranald
Chapter IV: Red River Settlement
Chapter V: Rebellion
Chapter VI: MacDonald Sails the Seven Seas
Chapter VII: Whaling on Japan
Chapter VIII: Ainu Capture MacDonald
Chapter IX: Ranald Taken South by Junk
Chapter X: Prisoner at Matsumae
Chapter XI: Imprisoned at Nagasaki
Chapter XII: Development of Dutch Learning
Chapter XIII: Ranald the Teacher
Chapter XIV: Preble to the Rescue
Chapter XV: Sailor and Gold Digger
Chapter XVI: Home lo Canada
Chapter XVII: In Japan, Meanwhile
Chapter XVIII: Perry Returns
Chapter XIX: MacDonald in the Cariboo
Chapter XX: Barkerville, the Big Strike of the Cariboo
Chapter XXI: Moriyama Serves at USA-Japan Treaty Negotiations
Chapter XXII: Ranald's Interpreters Continue to Serve
Chapter XXIII: Ranald Continues His Explorations
Chapter XXIV: MacDonald and the "Mile Houses"
Chapter XXV: Ranald's Adventures and the Canadian Pacific Railroad
Chapter XXVI: Ranching at Fort Colvile
Chapter XXVII: Ranald MacDonald's Last Days
Bibliography
Index
