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Told by the Pioneers who introduced a memorial to congress praying for the protection of American fishing interests in Alaska, which led to the purchase of that territory, following the investigation of \V. H. Seward, Secretary of State. In the spring of 1893, after the legislature adjourned, Smith, who had been sick, went to Seattle for treatment, where, at the Diller hotel, he passed away September 10. Smith left a young white wife, whom he had married only eighteen months before, and the two grandchildren. His daughter had died the year before. His last will and testament is filed in Okanogan County, his estate being valued at $500,000, which was willed to the young wife and grandchildren. She and her children have never come into their share of the property to this day. Smith was buried at Seattle. Thus, at the age of sixty-four, he passed to the Great Beyond. He closed the last chapter by writing "Finis-Okanogan Smith"-gone but not forgotten in the great Northwest. Honored in his own country, he will never be forgotten; a pioneer with ears to hear, eyes to see, and a heart to understand a God-forsaken wilderness, whose life left indelible impressions on the history of the Okanogan country. To him goes the credit for a great development. Kindness and honesty won the respect and confidence of the savage red men that saved lives from slaughter on numerous occasions, by smoothing out the differences between the white man and the Indian. WINFIELD MADISON DOOLEY Okanogan County I was born in Tama County, Iowa, in 1855. \Vhen I was 26 years old, the desire to go some place landed me in Bozeman, Montana, the end of the railroad. I drifted to Spokane, and back to Montana-then to Tacoma, where I was a dairyman. Driving cattle to Coulee introduced me to Okanogan, where I have lived permanently since ] 900. In 1903 I bought the Dooley Hotel. It is still my home. I have voted the Republican ticket always. I never held political office, and figured I couldn't have got one if I had wanted it. Okanogan County was sparsely settled when I came. 199 The bunch
Told by the Pioneer grass still grew and cattle grazed on all the ranges. With the cattle kings of the day I rode with my ten cowboys in the round-up. Being a cowboy was not a lazy man's job. A cowboy rode all day and slept with his head on his saddle wherever night overtook him. During the round-up I made my headquarters at a lake on a plateau on the Colville reservation. This lake is known as Dooley Lake. The boys would get lost and unable to find their way back to camp. They built a platform, set up a pole on the top of a huge rock on this plateau and flew the American flag. Except in a fog it could be seen all over the range. It brought in many a lost cowboy, and the Indian8 called the arrangement" Dooley's Fourth of July." Horses were turned out on the range from round-up to round-up. A fresh horse was ridden every day, whether or not it had been broken the year before, it must be done again each round-up. A horse was roped, thrown, saddled and bridled, and the cowboy mounted as the horse arose. The picture of the bucking broncho was a daily morning scene. The boys were bucked off, but Pete Smith, my foreman, was the best rider. No one was ever injured in my round-ups. I paid my riders forty dollars a month and keep during round-up. ~ly brand was the XXXX. OSCAR OSBORNE Grant County • The Civil vVar was fought in front of our house. Father was bankrupt. There was nothing in the South for an ambitious young man, so I came West to "\Yashington, as so many Tennesseans were doing. I came by the Union Pacific Railroad to San Francisco and by the Queen of the Pacific to Portland. I was the first on board to get seasick and the last to recover after the boat had crossed the Columbia River bar. Grand Coulee Billy "\Vhitmore and George 'Wilson, squaw men, were the only white persons west of Coulee. The Coulee was waving in bunch grass up to the horses' bellies. Springs abounded, a lovely lake with ducks floating upon it, was under the massive cliff walls of the Coulee. I chose this for my homestead. My cattle could feed on the tableland in summer and in canyon walls made by the Coulee they would be sheltered in ·winter. Also the rocky land would probably discourage 200
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Told by the Pioneers A :Mr. Lucas,
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Told by the Pioneers River. Father
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Told by the Pioneers Landing. When
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Told by the Pioneers Loren Bingham
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Told by the Pioneers Port Townsend,
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Told by the Pioneers HUGH ELDRIDGE
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Told by the Pioneers British Columb
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Page 221 and 222: INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
Page 223 and 224: INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
Page 225 and 226: INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
Page 227 and 228: INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
Page 229 and 230: INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
Page 231 and 232: INDEX Montgomery, William (Bill), 1
Page 233 and 234: 'SDEX Polk, 1 'i 5 Polk County, Ore
Page 235 and 236: INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
Page 237 and 238: INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
Page 239: INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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