William Cameron McKay

William Cameron McKay (1824–1893) was a scout in the Snake War and Modoc War, a Captain in the U.S. Army, a member of the Warm Springs Scouts, and a physician and surgeon. William Cameron McKay was born at Fort George on May 18, 1824, what is now Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon. He was the son of a famous trapper and guide Thomas McKay and his wife, Timmee T'lkul Tchinouk, daughter of Tshinouk (Chinook) chief Concomly. He was a grandson of Alexander MacKay and the step-grandson of Dr. John McLoughlin. Educated by his step-grandfather, he was sent with his brothers to be educated in the Eastern United States in 1838. At the age of 19 he was licensed to practice medicine. He commanded a group of Warm Springs Indians that served as scouts for the U.S. Army in the Snake War a campaign against the Northern Paiute in 1866–1868.