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Told by the Pioneers und horses. ,Ve cut down trees along the Touchet River and so came into being the first bridge between Pomeroy and Walla Walla. This was called Star's Bridge. The first school east of the Tucanon was on Pataha F'lats. It was built in 1874 by a man named Sharpneck, who had a little sa","Will at the edge of the Blue Mountains. Wernet there for spelling school, literary and debating society, and the usual gatherings typical of the frontier davs. • I recall going to Marengo in 1875-76.77 to attend Fourth of July celebrations. ,Ve had a picnic dinner, singing and speaking. Ernest Hopkins, a pioneer teacher, was the orator of the day. I knew Louis Raboin, the Hudson's Bay Company trapper. He lived with his Indian wife and children at Marengo, the place having been named for him. I was well acquainted with Jerry McGuire and the Hopwoods, who settled in what later became Asotin County. I knew Chief Timothy well, and heard him preach on Pataha Flat. The site of his village at the mouth of the Alpowa later became the home of David ::\Iohler. I have stayed there over night and gathered apples from the trees planted by the Rev. Spalding. Where Pomeroy now stands were fields of wheat. The :JlcCabe cabin stood near where Main street is now. The first wheat was hauled to Wallula j then to W alIa Walla. As soon as father raised enough wheat to sell, we hauled it twenty-five miles to New York Bar using four to six horses to a load.. In 1878 a mill was built at Pataha by Mr. Houser. Garfield County was organized in 188l. The country was full of peaceful, blanketed Indians. They wintered at the mouth of the Alpowa and the Asotin. Spring found them journeying to the camas grounds. Over in the Wallowa Valley, Chief Joseph lived with his tribe on the land which his father, Old Chief Joseph, had demanded as a part of the treaty grant in 1855. The treaty had been broken once by the whites, but in 1873 it was again restored to the Indians, but only for a short time. The valley was the hunters' paradise. There were deer, elk and mountain sheep j wild fowl by the thousands and a lake full of fish. There were berries and roots, everything the Indians desired, summer or ·winter. It was here that Chief Joseph was born. When an attempt was made to drive the Indians out, they fought to keep their home. Soldiers were ambushed on Whitebird Creek. I was at Lapwai when they brought in the wounded. When a company of volunteers was organized at Pomeroy, I joined 209
Told by the Pioneers and got the contract to haul military supplies for General Howard. I freighted as far as Mt. Idaho, fifteen miles from the Clearwater. From there, pack-horses and mules were used. Chief Joseph retreated and kept up a running fight for three months before surrendering to General Miles. He was taken to the Indian Territory and kept there for seven years, then transferred to the Colville reservation in Northeastern ""Yashington, where he died an exile from his old home. There is a monument at the foot of ~Wallowa Lake marking his grave. BARNEY OWSLEY Garfield County • (The story of a Pioneer, 90 years old, 'Whose earliest experiences associate him with lJractically all the famous men of early territorial days.) I was born March 29, 1847, in Cooper County, Missouri. In 1861 we started from Missouri, heading west to the Northwest Territory, as conditions were not comfortable in Missouri due to the Civil War. We thought there would be better opportunities in the far west. We had four yoke of oxen when we started and reached here with three head. I walked all the way from South Pass. The last house I saw was on the Loop Fork of the Platte. The first one I saw on this side was the Indian Agency at Umatilla. By the time we reached La Grande our food was gone and we waited there until our scouts went ahead to the agency and returned with supplies. We left the wagon train at Umatilla, and started for Walla Walla, the straggling village on Mill Creek. There we learned that ~we could get work up the Touchet. We followed the trail as far as a wagon could go. That brought us to "Stubb's" place where he had built a cabin and lived there with his squaw. His real name was Schnebley and the land afterwards became the townsite of Dayton. "Stubbs" was killed in the Okanogan country, while running government horses across the border. Davis and Whetstone had located in what is known as 'Whetstone Hollow, and father hired out to him to get logs from the Blue Mountains to put up their cabins, so we went up in the mountains and built a cabin of logs where we spent that first winter, which turned out to be the most talked-of winter in the history of this country. 210
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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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