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Told by the Pioneers impos:siblc to tra,"el in the early spring months. ,Vhen the signs wer(' fayorable his favorite riding horse "Buck" was brought out, amI "Snoqualmie," his pack horse, loaded with necessary supplies. At the time of the discovery there was no stopping place for a traveler but Indian Henr:" 's farm, on the ~Iashelle River. ,Vith faithful" Buck," though deaf as a post, and "Snoqualmie," who enjoyed the distinction of having reached the highest elevation on the mountain that wa:s ever reached b~- a horse, and perhaps the further distinction of having made morc trips across the Cascades into Eastern vVashingtoll and return, than any other horse liying, the pioneer was equal to an~adYenture, from swimming swollen streams that were sometimes Ilecessar~, to walking a bridge made of two trees felled side by side to span a stream which had to be crossed to reach the springs. The uanati,'e is as follows: I started from our home OIl Shawnee Prairie, Fountain County, Indiana, with my wife and fonr children, Elcaine. Da,-id, Tillatha and John, on the 6th day of March, 1853. ?'II;- youngest child was not able to ,valk when we started, but spent his evenings while on the trip in learning, ,dlich he did by supportiug himself h~- holding to the tongue of the ox ,,'agon while in camp. Jolm B. :\Io~'er. a Yer:" fine young man, who had :3tudied for the ministry. but ,d1O at that time was teaching our district school, \vent with us, also Joseph Da~-, a son of one of our neighbors. I got a neighbor to dri\"c us to Attica, the nearest town, ,,"here we took passage on the r. S. Ariel, a little steamer running on the 'Wabash River, as far south as E,-ans,-ille, at that time a flouri shing town of 4,000 or ;';,000 inhahitants. A shocking" incident of our first start was the bursting of the boiler of the steamer Bee, twelye miles from E,"ansYille, which caused the death of CH'r~" person aboard. Our steamer took the poor, mangled creatures ahoard and carried them to En1l1syille, where they were mel by sOlTo,ying friends, who had sighted the signal of mourning di,, pla~-ed h~- our steamer. From EvansYille 'we took the steamer Sparrow Ha,d;: for St. Louis, thence by the Polar Star up the Mississippi and :JIissouri Rivers to St. Joseph. ,Ve were now upwards of 2,000 miles on our ,vestward journey. Here I bought eight yoke of oxen and a large quantity of supplies, and traveled in wagons along the ri\"er to Kanes,"ille, now Council Bluffs, where "'e camped, as it ,,-a~ yet too earl~' to start on our long- journey, the grass not having grow)\ so tlmt it would afford food for our cattle along the route; so we decided to remain for several weeks and make some preparations for another f:'tart. I boug'ht a carriage and a span of horses for $2;';0 ,,,hieJI my wife and children were to usc as far as the road would permit. I also got a sheet-iron sto,-e, ,dlich, with cooking utensils, only weighed twellty-fiye pounds, hut which proved a real luxury, as we were able to 122
Told by the Pionecl's ha,-e warm biscuits for breakfast whenever we chose, besides many other delicacies which we could not have had by a camp fire. I only paid twelve dollars for this stove, but it proved invaluable to us. ~H Kanesville I stood guard at night for the first time in my life, ill company with VanOgle, who was also camped here, preparatory to g'oing to Puget Sounel. It was dark one evening, as I finished feeding ~ m:," cattle, so that I could not see the person who spoke in a fine childish voice, saying: "Is there a man here by the name of Longmire1' , I thought it must be a boy by the voice, and answered that that was my name, when he introduced himself as John Lane, a man of whom I had often heard but never seen, a tall, well built man, with a smooth, bo:,'ish face, and fine, squeaking voice, much out of keeping with his great body. He invited me to his camp nearby where I met Asher Sargent and his family, Sargeant being his brother-in-law, and after some conversation we made arrangements to continue our journey together. ",Vhile here we met a young man by the name of Ivan ",Vatt, who was anxious to cross the plains, so I arranged with him to drive one of m)- ox teams, and found him excellent help at various times when he met obstacles that '.vere hard to overcome. His friend, ""Villiam, Sargeant's two sons, "Wilson and Francis ::\Iarion, and Yan Ogle drove the others. The time had come when we decided the grass '.vas sufficient to feed our cattle on the way, and we moved tweh-e miles below Council Bluffs to a ferry, where we made our final start for Puget Sound on the 10th day of 2\Iay, 1853. We camped for the night about one mile from the ferry, where we were joined by E. A. Light, nmv of Steilaeoom, who was a friend of .John Lane's. Nothing occurred ,vorthy of note until two days afterwards, when we reached the Elkhorn River, where '.ve found a ferry with only one boat, and so man)- emigrants ahead of us that we must wait two or three weeks to be ferried across the river. A party of emigrants were lucky enough to get three canoes, and while they were crossing we all went to work and made one more. By this time they were across, so we bought their canoes, and with our own proceeded to ferry our goods to the other side. Here occurred an accident which proved disastrous, and spoiled in a measure the harmony existing up to this time in our little company of em- • 19rants. J aIm Lane started with some fine stock, among thC'm a thoroughbred mare of great beauty, and very valuable, which ,ve '.vould not allow to swim with the rest of our stock safely across the stream. ",Vith a. rope around her neck held by Sargent, and myself on one side of the 1'1ver, and '.vith himself and E. A. Light on the other side, we towed her aeross, but alas dead! ""Ye landed her according to Lane's instructions, and tried to revive the beautiful creature, but failed. 123
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OCCURRENCES INDEX AT NISQUALLY (Ref
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INDEX McGillivery, S., 37-June 27.
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IKDEX I Ceder. (Cedar) Iowa. 120 Ce
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INDEX Immigration, 73, 74, 75, 76,
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INDEX Nelson Bridge, 95 N Elson Fer
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INDEX Sweet Water River, 162, 218 S
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