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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1937)
THEREGHSTEBiGTT'AB. OREOOU Pa ore rive. o I Train Pioneer5 , i nillard Tells How Women Had Mrs- J- ... .:.nv j loon Skirts at To ini p: . LLn i ii and our work was ill put inside ' whitee hanginc around nun just point the ir funs at the Indiins ' on the Snake rirer Bannock Jim 1 "We had to rrose the Snake rirer wouia Keep urn trouble eren neiore tne inaian got and tney would leave, iney -lever diappearci and we did not ere him throurh a narrow canvnn and acron burdint all nisht, and two men Hood around to it. had lo fire a i-hnt at them. The In- ,nr more. 1'his made my father and r"rT ""s " station manned hy guard every night. W hen it came my : ..0ur ,w ,,,. h,j the only 'l'n " awfully an cry because Captain Cor u.ieanv and Ihev both . ' ldier from Illinois. Tuej father , turn to stand guard, the I w tight DOX in tn, 4nd at they rnnl.lu'to set our u.ek. Two said something waswrone. or' some- i next flay I would have to drive our I Swtwatf r lhe riTfr w too dfep ,r5 Before we reached the crossing thing was going to happen. I CONTINUED ON PAGE II . -4" " , a to jorj g0 vt took the box off our thirteen year, old then and .mall ,nd u,j jt , Uny ft,,,, for my age. Our captain knew where , lh, riv. Th,T wou( unnj.h all the watering place, were and lhe Irom lh, , ,nd takf ,h, ,,,, distance, between these place, large. . ... ..-, oH ... rullnjnE .. ly determined the number of miles Li htr parent! aattaaaamaaaaMaaaMaaai 1 PMyr then tie a long rope around the neck iraveiea eacn aay oy tne train, which l ..j .: areraged from ten to twentyfire th, riv tyinr ,h, oth ni BB ,h, miles per day. wafon bf() and hr4 ,h, hors, pul, At Ft. Kearney we did not cross it across the river with the auppiie. th riatte river as many wagons in it. A rope was also fastened on had mired down in the quicksand and the rear of the wagon box and aome had a hard time getting out, many one would hold on to this to kiep of them being lost. it from going down the river. The "We left Ft. Kearney and trnrel- stock was all driven across and the ed on the north side of the riatte ; other wagon boiea were put on top river for two or three hundred miles, ours and ferried across and the run It was just as smooth as a table, nine gear, were then pulled across, no ditches or ruts all the wdy. When ' These also had a rope tied to the we reached Fort Laramie. Wyoming, rear end and this was held by some there were several hundred Indians "ne on .the opposite shore to keep being held there to arrange a treaty, them from drifting down stream. They told us that if we would hurry Hoops Discarded on throurh the Black Hills, they ' At Sweetwater . would hold the Indians there until "These were the days when the we got through. We did this, but ' sir's and women wore hoopa and the the next train that came after us captain allowed . us to wear them was caught and destroyed by the ; ""til we reached Sweetwater where Indians. we had to ferry across. Here he ndlans Bea Off i called us all together and told us Members of Train ' that we would have to discard our "While we were waiting at Ft. ! """P" "nd nn '"oW" r0,1.na we "w T iMini nm. f thm fnrii.n. ....... i hundreds of these hoops hanging on ! to our camp and our captain told ' wh'" h,d b"n .'li'-r,fd us it must give them whatever they i r".iou ir..n. clt mi fn, tn t.. .h. .;.ji. We did not bring anything with They put a blanket down and put ! u" but "r Adding and clothing and the things we gave them on it. "" "nnl" w n"l'd " "n ,h Everything was so mixed up, sugar, i ,r'1'- cnn ""r,,""lr" tobacco, flour, etc., I don't see bow "? on little platform in the rear I they ever got it straightened out. OI our wagon it Having an oven ami They asked chiefly for fire water 1 cooamg. no.es as wen as an (whiskey) and tobacco, but Wl1nted 'xtfa one for the coffee pot.. We did almost everything they saw. We had i not do "ny vOol"nK T a camp fire, a new wagon (as was everything j "In the Black Hills (probably Bat else we sinned out with, as my ' t' Snake Hills, at Split Bock on father would not have anything but ! the) Sweetwater! there' were big ant the best to make the trip with! and ' hills and the anta would take all it was fixed so that we could slide j the wagon sheet back and let i i the air and nlso see the scenery. ! This left our gun in sight, which was a single trigger, muzzle loader. I was sitting on lhe xjjori note: The following horses and what we ; was close by. The leader of lhe In- i,us lir Mrs. . J. JJiiiani, , . ,. . ... . i,i. .1,. t.l- .. .I,. . tiIh ins called a niuucru covcruu whoii, ny ; inniia i-iimc nuu miw nip gun ana ' ....n nn .ut bei her trip across xi., this we' mean that the bows were ; said ' Heap gun. See gun," and ! bended ones were too expensive. hr parents. Sir. ana .urs. n.iAnf i rnaul n Mr h.nj r. it- t 1 i.tvt.:i. : i. Tit..i. the little pieces of glass and beads that the Indians had dropped while heading buffalo robes and put these in the hills they built. We young sters had a great time finding these beads and I still have some of them. "There were friendly Indiana hero that sold the buffalo robea and we I forward like the wagons of the enrl- j so his sleeve slid back and showed j Hills there was practically no timber dians and they taught the IndianR the white man's meanness. There were always plenty of renegade ier immigrants. We had built a plat- 1 that he was a white man with his Bt SIRS- S. J. DILLARD form about eight feet wide on top if arms painted about half way up. L ,c mime men James H. the wagon bed with three trap doors : My father told hur. the gun was BUM I" I ,.;:,. J !, it. .; ln J thnt l,. trnt.M .... It ul Willatt W. orir bax nf w fbis platform was used j him if he did not get out. The man IliBMltlon 01 num. ,c. .!,. i ; , 1,IU it,. UeM th.t h. r.U II,. I. . tr.t Toung mnn, go it est, "l p" ' i" .pm,,..., ....c .t . ..... ... I ed the plains from Illinois ' wagon box was used for the other ninns angry and my father said he (toMi and settled just touth of ' things we needed to bring with us. ! was not afraid of them and that he rrore Thev sent glowing We made about twenty-five miles ; had plenty of rope and he would ly to their relatives in the Kast I1? day across Iowa, crossed the nang mm ir he dinnt get out. ao sf-fiffeet that Willamette Valley ! Missouri river at Omaha, Nebraska, j he took his crowd of Indians and L i flinate unexcelled in these and went up the north side of the i got out in a hurry. The renegade m d nr .. . 1 "" . . . . " .1... v itnptnv the winter! mat "Aft." lenvitt!? Iitscntine. lows. ' " " ,.n,,,n.r ,nn mr t. a tii horas for alt who carae: i we went on to Council Bluffs, Iowa, ;t there was plenty of green grass j which was the main stopping place 1 the winter mr corses nuu alter Jiuscanne. it was nere rnnt 1 -It IDA plenty of wood to burn saw my first Indian grave, the Jn--nd of real. After reading these ; dint, would not use. coffins. They tn for several years, their sister, just took a box and placed the era- t. Junes Whjtely Emmons, and bnlmed body in it. leaving the top daily, packed up their belong- open, and put it in a grave about and started the trek across the , the same depth as we use now. All plains from Mississippi to where ! of the Indian's belongings were ar- lli the Oreron. I ranged in the grave around the aides piers! the rente traveled was so as not to cover the body. Later Muscatine. Iowa, westward n tbey made them fill the graves. f-.it DeiMc.ij.es to Council Bluffs, , but at that time they did not. I k across the Missouri river at ; dn't know what they used to pre kiU Xehraess. then followed up serve the bodies with, but there was i scrth side of the North Platte no odor and you could see the body fn to Ft. Kearney and Ft. Lara-Wng there in the box. a. then foUowmr. always on the ! wagon "am is ki nde of the North Platte river Mso Up tie Sweetwater, thence up the "Our next main ston was at Ft. writer to the South Pass of the ; Kearney, Nebraska, where we were B2eitl Divide, thence down the : held until a sufficient number of P Sudi river to about Eden, j emigrants had arrived to make up uenee westward again to a train to atart our journey across Blackfoot bridce across the I th. tttain TT. hot! tt.flT-.1.i1 .lAne uli river, leaving Ft. Hall and ; until we reached here and it bad 8"f" ,H t0 the south. From i rained -almost all of the time and B.acsfoot bridce west across ! th. v.t. ... wit TT.f. w. vtt f-m il.aho to old Ft. Boise on ' joined by enough emigrants to make f j f" '" ' twenty-two wagons, as tZ v . oH lmmi"'nt road it wa3 necessary tn have this many ( time mountains, crossing in the train in order to make a cor ' amies or the RnrW P, .t ti,... ... .,iiaj - dcnTi fa flreron Tilv ) .a.,,1. ' u- ' ..j .t.. t i i l k ' r"ii,u i,v ,.APl IQII (lie rPM It.V IIKIPCI.. 41 Salem and Fuppn. tn o: -t.. t a i.J - I t. f . i iiii' K iiiu ti iphiiib irnteit'll it guii !; ln , " 5tnnStn as it was deal slower than the horses all , L,ji"0 handu in the morninr would jtt the lfi ii nee Tfcms maripn nnean nrst nnn r" 'BfiS .L. J VAle1 ft! i J'Prr A'mr. TUinn?!. pass them and jro on ahead and Mem j - '.-'!' rtprn woen campmc nme came we wouiu m had before and bii wnson we would all drive our waeons jn - JJ brng'ji hie rirrle and make a hie corral and the hills- were covered with 1 coarse grass and bushes and all the time were were followed by an In dian we called Bannock Jim. He1 rode a bijr black horse and looked like a statue. We never saw him more hut every time we would jro around a hill there, he would be ahead of us watchintr us. The In dians wanted the stock we had with us and had him watchinr for a chance to steal it. Indians Attempt t Steal Stock "Several times during our trip the Kunrd caught Indians sneaking to our corral through the grass. They would Welcome Visitors Success to The Paaeant Eugene Packing Co. 675 Willamette St ltd fir.t'Vne- fn"r I"1rse n"r" ,hin ""dr 'nr ,hs 01 ' "it VnJ f r11 "ls 5,i";ssi. when they arrived. 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