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Told by the Pioneers AUTOBIOGRAPHY of P.H.ROC'NDTREE Lewis County lS52 As I remember it today, my father's folks were reared in Kentucky, my mother's folks in Ohio. They came to Illinois and settled in Knox County in 1835. In 1852 and '53 all of father's family crossed the • • plains and settled on the Chehalis River at Boistfort. In the fall of 1858 Andrew Roundtree, father's brother, came back to Illinois by way of the Isthmus, then father concluded to come to 'Vashington by crossing the plains, and we began to get ready for the trip. On the 4th day of April, 1859, we started on our journey across the plains. Our outfit consisted of one carriage, one wagon with one yoke of oxen and three (3) yoke of cows, and two-horse teams, and about forty head of horses and cattle to drive loose, and in our mess were seventeen souls consisting of father's family, and A. J. Round. tree, T. J. Spooner, and mother and two sisters, J. N. Reynolds and family and Ben Benson. The first night out the gTound froze so hard we laid up four days until a thaw came. We traveled north and crossed the Mississippi River at Rock Island and Davenport in Iowa. 'Ve then traveled west through Iowa to Council Bluffs, and camped one mile west of Council Bluffs in the Missouri River bottom. There A. J. Roundtree and Susan Spooner were married and we organized a company of one hUlldred and five wagons, all bound for Oregon and Washington. Dan Sheets was elected captain and A. J. Roundtree was elected lieutenant. We broke camp and crossed the Missouri River at Omaha. Omaha at that time contained about fifteen houses. After we left Omaha, there were no more settlers until we got to 'Valla WalIa, except two or three trading posts. We started to guard our stock as soon as we crossed the Missouri River. About six men were detailed each night as guards. Each night we would drive our wagons in a circle so as to form a corral for our stock and our camp was in the corral. The Indians were supposed to be hostile and we were always on the lookout. When we got up along the Platte River we came to a lot of discouraged Pikes Peak miners waiting for one of the men that discovered the gold at Pike's Peak to come along. They had a gallows built and said they were going to hang him. His name was Curtiss. We camped and waited about three hours. Curtiss came along and got up on a 95
Told by the Pioneers goods box and talked about one and one-half hours and they let him go on. So we hitched up and drove on. Our average day's drive was about twelve (12) miles, where water and grass were to be had. ·When we got to where the Oregon and California roads fork about three miles west of Steamboat Springs, there had been no wagons over the road since 1853 or 1854. So the road was very dim. "\Ye followed if for two or three days and lost it altogether. Our captain and lieutenant had both been over the road; also some other men that called themselves the "Red Rovers", and who had their wagons marked, "The Red Rovers". Our captain wanted to take a course a little south of west. After a good deal of jangling our captain told them they could go their course. So five wagons took their course to the southwest. "\Ve continued our course a little north of west. The first night our camps were three or four miles apart, with a low ridge between us. The second morning we had just broken camp and started when 1 saw our captain turning our front wagons back to camp. He hurried us to corral and took fifty men and went to the rescue of the five wagons that had left us the morning before. By the time we got coralIed and the fifty men mounted and ready to ride, we could see the five wagons coming over the ridge, one hundred and fifty Indians circling them on ponies and firing at them. The men were spread out all around their \vagons on foot keeping the Indians from killing their teams. When our captain and his men got within about half a mile, the Indians turned their ponies and rode off. Our men did not fire a shot at the Indians. Three of the Red Rovers were wounded bv the • Indians, but all got well. ·Well, the Red Rovers were willing to stay with the big train. Our captain was right on the course. In a day or two we found the old road. A day or two later the Indians raided our stock at night, and ran off about twenty-five head of horses. Twenty-five men followed the runaway horses and came up with them the first night out, in camp, surrounded the hostiles and killed all but five; one white man and four Indians, and got all the horses and were back with our train in fortyeight hours. \Ve had no more serious trouble with the Indians. Thev would come • around our camps begging, but I think their real business was to see how strong we were, and see how well we were armed, for they always wanted to trade for guns. They would offer us horses for guns, but our officers would not allow anyone to trade an Indian a gun. :\fost everv family or mess in our train had a tent and sheet iron • • !J(i
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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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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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