East Oregonlaa'Ronnd-Trp Souvenir Edition '' Pendleton, Oregon, Thursday, September 21, 1922.
LET ER BUCK
Page Twelve
OLD OREGON TRAIL HAS ROMANTIC HISTORY;
IS ROUTE CHOSEN BY OX TEAM TOURISTS OF
LONG AGO WHEN THEY SOUGHT HOMES IN WEST
(Continued from pai;o 11.)
be killed and eaten, but the owner
doBgedly rcfUHPd to purt with his ani
mal. Continuing on, the party came
unexpectedly upon a camp of Sho
uhone Indians who fled in great fright
when the white men came In sight.
The party Immediately naught five
horses and killed one for food. They
made a boat of the skin and sent meat
over to the starving men on. Ihe other
side of the river. Ono of the Cana
dians, Jean Haptistn Provost returned
in the boat and been use of his hunger
Mr. Hunt finally "u enieemeu ramui , - ;
cited on beholding me meai ruusuiiK
after having offered before tile fire upset the canoe and
was urowneu in me com, mm
rent of the river.
A station on the Homestead branch
of railroad down the river is named
after the unfortunate Caiuidlun and
one also in honor of Sardepie, anoth-
Canadian boatman who ferrieu
in' I meat across the trein'herMtiw stream
ter. The main party then kept on
down the river, subsisting on fish and
an occasional beaver. The party tlion
divided, Mr. Hunt and eighteen men
going on one side of the river and Mr.
Crooks and eighteen men on the oth
er side.
Some Snake Indians were encoun
tered from whom some salmon ami a
dog were purchased. On November
17 several Indiana were met, one of
whom had a horsi
purchased the animal in exchage for
an old tin kettle
a gun, ammunition and beads In vain.
Mr. Hunt here left the river and
started over the desert. The party en
countered great suffering and hard
ship on this journey ami finally
reached the Boise river and an Indian
camp where fish and dogs were pur- er
chased for food. The I'aycttc
Weiscr rivers were forded and the
Enake river finally reached again.
Country Je.crihol us Kcsci t.
Xovembcr 28th, a bag of meal and
some fish Mux purchased from a par
ty of Shoshoncs who informed Mr.
Hunt that they had seen white men
on both sides of the Snake river within
the last few days.
Washington, in his account of the
Hunt expedition, has this to say of
the country west of the Snake:
... "A dreary desert of sand and grav
el extends from the Snake river almost
to the Columbia. Here and there Is
a thin and scanty herbage. Insufficient
for the pasturage of horse or buffalo.
Indeed tiieso trackless wasten oe
tween the Kocky mountains and the
1'aciflc are even more uo-'iolate and
barren than the naked, upper prulrii-n
on the Atlantic side; they present rait
dreary and thirsty wilds between Ill
habitations of man, in traversl'i
for the relief of the. men on tho other
si""-. Proceeding along the river
bunks til"' party met Willi some Sho
shone Indians and the lure of on old
till kettle secured another horse for
food.
Mr. Hunt now crime to the Weiscr
river where a band of Shoshoncs wore
camped. From them he traded for a
couple of horses, a dog and some dried
cherries. After considerable bicker
ing, he procured an Indian to guide
them over the mountains to the Co
lumbia. On December 23. the party
lall crossed the SnaKe leaving it with
no regret, the Canadians calling it the
"Accursed Mad River."
I'owder ItHrr Valley Keaeheil.
Tlie route now led up the I'urnt
river from the present site of Hunt
ington to where Dnrkee now stands
ami on across the hills to the Powder
river valley at the present site of Ha
lter which was reached by the party
4.
story while the pat'ent little Indian
woman with the Hunt expedition is
unnamed and unsung, while the priva
tions she underwent were ten times
greater than those of Sacaiawei. The
party spent New Year's "lay with the
Indians, feasting on horse and fog
meat and celebrating tin' -lay in the.
'best manner possible utehr Mi'j cir
cumstances. Tin' following day the pirty Mrnek
out to cross the lilue .'nountnini, pass
ing near the present lucatio-i of I.n.
GrHtnle. The journey across the
mountains was very .1 ffi ; ot and te
dious, the snow being waist 'Jeep t nd
the weather very cold.
t mnfillti lilver I :. .j. i it fl.
The ehihl of Pierre 1 on died on
the trip across the tiioUiitiiiiis, On
January H the camp of S"!alogas o;i
the 'Kii-O-lnl-la or rniatiila was
reached, which was near the present
site of Pendleton.
Those Indians hud brass kettles,'
axes, tea kettles and other implements
showing that they bad eornmiiniea' ion
w.th while traders.
Here horses and dogs were bought
for rood. A blanket, a knife or a half
pound of blue beads bought n h'rs
These Indians did not eat ho'S" flesh
but feasted on elk anil deer meal, b..?
they asked such a high price for It
that tiie whit"1 men .wen1, fore'ed to
content themselves with a bit of horse
.'mil dog meat.
The I'matilla nhouiul"d .vith bea
ver and Hie Indians wer-1 induced 10
Iraii this animal, as lis 1! In could b"
easily sold to tho white ti'.i'lipi.
The
The luirty
tile Column a on
point between the
(iilinibn n;vr. ,
pressed on nut MM'll'.'l
Fa 11 nary HI, at a
mouth of tho Uma
tilla mid the mouth of tin: Wallah
IWallali river.
I Here fish and dogs were secured
wnicn, iiiu wuiiiiiTiT vm .... " 1011 ijocemner -. ne I'iin.v .imiiiiim. w j rrom I Do Indians found there. tftreyj
uanger Ul pci.Binofc. oil llcro.su uie iiiiivj, imnnim; m"' l'i -n- on s 01 1 III Olllllll 11)11 from tho Iiidli.ns
if the same party could go over "his ,.n. site of Haines and North I'owder. gave the party hones that MclCeiizi"
route now, what a different story Mount Hunt, one of the h'ghest peaks and .Mol.ennaii and party hid passed
they would have to tell for tho music
hand of reclamation has made a gar-
don out of the former desert and pop
ulous towns have sprung up in the
Siuike river valley where members of
the Hunt expedition nearly perished
of hunger and hardship.
In the Ila'slcy-Klkliorn range west of Uown the river some time before.
Haines, was named after .Mr. Hunt.
It was In the vicinity of North Pow
der Unit the wife of Pierre Dorlon
gave birth to her baby. The main
party kept on while Dorlou remained
witli his wife and children in their
iTO-
IVi'Jls laced In Snake finer C'nn.tori. crude camp and attended her in her
Mr. Hunt and his paitv continued sickness,
on down the river canyon which wi.s I'ciist of Jlorse Meal New Year's Ihi.v
Food was very scarce, the party sail- On December 30, the party arrived
sistlng on a black-tail deer, u beaver In the lrand Tlonde valley and found
and some frozen berries. The horses 'six lodges of Shoshoncs camped in
were killed and eaten one by line tin- j the vicinily of the present town of
111 only that owned by I'lerro Dorlon I'nion. On December ;i1sl. Dorlon and
remained. hls family caught up with Ihe main
On Doeomlior (III), 1MI, Mr. CrooliS I party. It Is fitting at tills time to pay
and his party wme seen in tin oilier !a tribute hi the Indian wife of Dorlon,
side of the river, returning lifter a j who had shared the hardships of the
vain allenipt to get thi'ou-li the nar-1 dreary march with as great fortitude
row precipitous canyon of 'be ri"riis the men, though she was far inl
and seeing not hlng but. oioiintaiii piled ; vaticcd in her pregnancy. Shi- cxhib
upon mountain for miles ahead, jited a force of character In many of
Crooks and his men with almost J the trying situations faced by the par
starved, having subsisted on a fewity, worthy of one In a much higher
beaver and old moccasins. Hunt mid
his men then turned ibacli and started
up the river.
In their extremity, Mr. Hunt sug
gested that the horse of Pierre Dorinn
walk of life,
The praises of Sacajawea, the In
dian woman, who accompanied Lewis
and Clark on their journey across the
continent arc heralded in song and
Tho Pendleton Drug Co
The Rexall Store
1! For uh to simply alU'inpt to l'LKASK a cimfiil
iiik public is to lall short in the execution of a
sacred charj.ro.
1i We aim lo do more than I'LKASK bocausc w e
feel that the relations between the ilnijrtfixt and
the public bonier more closely on the profes
sional than do many other business associations.
', When you come into the Kexall Store you will
tret what you ask for unless it happens to be out
of stock in our complete stocks a very rare oc
currence. We take a personal interest in our business
and in the patronage of our customers. Let this
be an urgent, standing request 1 hat. if any time
you feel that the article that you bought has nut
Kivon the full value expected, you w ill jrive us
the pleasure of personally adjusting your com
plaint. We know that we cannot continue to in
crease our business unless we give the poopk'
an holiest, square deal.
' Just a word about our Kodak department. It
has grown to be one of the largest departn cuts
in our business because we have given the p;ib!k'.
the service and the quality of work wh'rh l hey
are entitled to. We carry at all tin es a com
plete line of Kodaks and supplies pud maintain
a fully equipped stock room.
Kodak developing and printing plant in
charge of a professional photographer.
'I
cecding down the river, .the party ar
rived at the Indian illare of Wisiirarn
on January 31st.
Wishra.m was located near what is
now tlie town of Spedis, Washington,
a few miles up the river from Tlie
Dalles.
This village must have been near
what we now call Cclilo Falls as Is
spoken of as tlie fishing mart of the
Indians and where the salmon were
speared as they tried to leap the ra
pids. This tribe was culled the Tlak-Luit
anil are described as being very ly
and thievish.
Continuing on down the river.. Mr.
Hunt and his parly reached what is
now called Cascade Locks where a
thieving band of Indians were, encoun
tered inxl the nlniost vlllgauoe was
needed to protect the property of the
party. After considerable dickering.
Mr. Hunt procured the necessary num
ber of boats with which to make the
trip down tlie river to Astoria.
.Vloria, tlie licstlfiulion, Itearhcd.
The tr.p from lure down the rivcrj
was uneventful and finally on the
.'H.lh day of February, 1812, the party.
jswept down the stream and cuinc in
sight of s'o'ia.
I Tic feelings of tlie party can he im-
Jtglired when we stop to consider that
It had been over a year on the way
from St. Louis, most of tlie time In a
trackless wilderness and among sav
age tribes.
i Among the first to greet them was
Itecd McLennan and McKenzic, from
whom Ihey had been separated at the!
Caldron Linn, near what, is now Twin
Falls. These men had started ouf
from tlie Caldron Linn to find u route
and had conic together at what they
culled III"' Devil's Scuttle Hole and Is i
near what we call the Seven Devils
country. They followed the Snake on
down to tlie Columbia anil thence
down lo Astoria where they arrived
a month ahead of Mr. Hunt The dis
tance travelled by the Hunt party was
ahoiil :i.iil mill's, though the actual
distance from St. Louis to Astoria Is
only isiiii miles.
Tin- lolhiwliig "lay was given o er to
rejoicing Mil' the safe arrlwil of tlie
paitv. The colors were hoisted, guns
were fired, anil there w is i tVa.t of
beaver, fisli ami M'nlsiui which was a
welcome d'vci-siun from horse ami dog
flesh which the party had subsisted
on for sii long. The festivities ended
up witli a grand dance at il'shl, led
by 1 lie Canadian o.va;:eurs.
The l.etliru Journey. '
in March I '." I 'J. .ln'li li 1. I'cn
.tele-.-, Mc'.i'iinail ni'd two I niiauians
s'a' tcil back lo St. Louis witli ells-I
P.i'cIh-s it r .Mr. AM'ir to'. I llg of the
l-is.ii.-'s 'I -l. ri.i on! tl e s il'i' arriv
:il ol Mi. 'I'll : .i.i t ico.-f ul' his party.
Mr. li'i il lent III"' il'i-pal . lies ill n tin
box I" Inc'i tit 'l.ippid sccllicly on h.n!
ha. !. .
They eiv ii'ii ti f.-eil tiy aparty of
twelve no n i-arrvoo; -il, ;lus to the
po-t on Hie i '.ikica-.'.oi.
At Wisliialll, til-;, ill! I l'""rl.ie
their stipptl" s ar.iiia 1 ll "i roods ami
were si upon lt ii. e lnd;-iis .vol Mr.
. Ilccd b.ntlv Wtcip. lt d ami ill i tin box
of dispati hcs ,.tolen, th. Indians th'nlt-
liitlh.it It "lit ii I "'it Medicine."
unc Did an w:is kitted and one wornd-
tl. Tin- ln.li.ic-" d iiail b'd I'.l.it Mr.
Kc" il Ih- p i ll up as a sacrifice to the
dcid warrior "lit ;he drnrind 'a.'l' rc-tu-id
and the iicut. r settled by the
'white no n go m; tli-- iadiails a bh'li
' k" t to cover d m I w nr. or and to
. b.o-"'t ft"r tlie io iter.
i The object ,if tin poir-it llo'V
. being ih rc.iteit by III. lo-t of C tin
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