Told by the Pioneer's - Washington Secretary of State

Told by the [->,iollcers
.YASCY TVINECOOP
Stevens County •
~h father was Frederick 'William Perkins. He was born in the city
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of Xew York in 18:26. His father had seven trading ships as merchantmen
on the ocean and owned a quarter of a mile of wharfage along
New York's waterfront. His nephew became the partner of one of
America's gTeatest financiers. ~lv father's mother was a Griswold
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from one of the New England states.
I mentioll these things because when my father married my mother,
an Indian girl, descendant of chiefs, his mother cut him off with one
dollar and never claimed him again as her son.
1.1~- mother was banished from her tribe as punishment for marrying
a white man.
It must have been in 1850 that mv father decided to come west.
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There were seven men in his party and they traveled horseback. They
were amollg the first to cross the plains by tne northern route.
Somewhere along the :JIissouri river the Indians stole their horses.
Thev
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were forced to tranl on foot until they
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met some friendly Indians
"'ho furnished them canoes. They paddled up the ri,-er as far
as they could go, then traded for Indian ponies. There ,,,ere not
enouo'h b l)onies to 0'0 around so they took turns ridin o