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Told by the Pioneers the massacre, and after being held at Umatilla for a time, was ransomed at The Dalles. Through all her experiences she kept her cherished Bible, which Mrs. Whitman had autographed. The Bible was given to the daughter (Mrs. Sa,'age), who kept it until recently, when she presented it to the Whitman College museum. MA.Y SQCIRES 'Whitman County • I was ten years old when my father decided that the grasshoppers were making more headway in Kansas than the farmers could ever hope to make. Some of our neighbors had come to Washington Territory and had written back such glow.ing accounts that a group of us loaded up the prairie schooners and set out across the plains in lR77, leaving there on the 9th of May. We drove mules and had no feed for them, so it was necessary to leave the main trail and follow the grass. Father seldom laid down his rifle. I remember that a child from the Missouri train died, and the other men stood guard while father made the coffin. Then the grave was dug and only the women and children stood by the grave, the men standing guard at a little distance. W'e saw several herds of buffalo, but the men never left the train. Antelopes were near enough to be brought down by our hunters, so we had plenty of fresh meat, prairie chickens and other wild fowl. 'Ve reached the Blue Mountains in August, and on arriving at Walla Walla were out of provisions and money, so we stopped there and father worked in the harvest fields. :Mother dried berries and fruit. Then we came on to Whitman county, where our neighbors had located. Father homesteaded here. There were claim shacks scattered here and there, little one-room affairs. Single men got pretty homesick and m\' mother made it as pleasant for them as she possibly could. 'We located in the district called "Thousand Springs Taylor," so named for the owner of the farm with the many springs. In 1878 we attended school in an old log house, then were transferred to the Holbraok district, walking three and one-half miles over the bunch grass hills morning and evening. Hattle Ta~'lor was our first teacher. and Sandusky Collins taug-ht us the following year. In 1880 we had a school at what is now Pullman, then called Three Forks. This school was in a log house. Bessie Fullerton was our ]39
Told by the Pioneers teacher here. Our fuel supply failed, so the school was moved to my father's house the last three weeks of the term. A little frame school house was built in 1880 where the Pullman high school now stands. There were no desks, only benches. "\Ve made snow forts in winter and had snow battles. One of the entertainments we had in those days was the old spelling bee. It was held in the evenings. I remember "spelling down" the whole goathering, including a Harvard graduate. "'lYe had a Sunday school, which was held in our home, but we had no church services excepting when the circuit rider came through. Our first mail came to Colfax bv wav of Almota and ~loscow. Our first • • Christmas tree was in the little frame school house in 1881. School started J anuary ~, and revival services were conducted in the school house for three weeks. Then the ~fethodist church was organized by Rev. Brvan. • In 1879 we had our first Fourth of July celebration in a gro\·e. In 1881 the first store building in Pullman was finished and the Fourth of July dance was given there. The new church was built in 1882 and a big Christmas tree was set up. My brother and I roamed these hills nearly sixty years ago-happy and contented. If we were missing life, we didn't realize it. .Many changes have now taken place. Now an automobile skims along over paved roads to Spokane in less than two hours. It took my father three days to drive there when he took me up there to attend school. Theatrical companies went through here in their own conveyances, !'>topping off in these little bunch grass towns for" one-night stands." Nothing very eventful happened. The college was established here. It is now a malTelous Rchool and keeps Pullman going where other towns are slipping. c. O. RHODES Pacific County • I was bol'll in the to"'11 of Bay Center, Pacific county, State of ·Washingtoll in 1875. ~ly parents were pioneers and I was the seventh ehild in a familv of twelve. I have resided within two miles of mv • • birthplace for sixty-one years, which is my age at this time. All of we children with one exception were born in this same eounty and 160
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WASHINGTON PiONEER PROJECT ADVISORY
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Told by the Pioneers A :Mr. Lucas,
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Logging in Mason County Told by the
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INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
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INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
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INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
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INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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INDEX Montgomery, William (Bill), 1
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'SDEX Polk, 1 'i 5 Polk County, Ore
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INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
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INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
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INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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