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REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER CHAPTER I. FAREWELL TO THE OLD SOUTHERN HOME. I HAVE often wondered, when viewing a modern passenger coach, with iLs palace cars. its sleeping and dining cars, if those vvho cross the "Great American Desert," from the Mississippi to the Pacific in four days, realize. the hardships, dangers and privations of the Arognauts of fifty-eight years ago. The "Plains" were then an unbroken wilderness of three thousand miles, inhabited by hordes of wild Indians, and not too friendly to the white man journeying through his country. The trip then required careful preparation^-oxen, wagons, provisions, arms and ammunition must be first of all provided. These were essentials, and woe to the hapless immigrant who neglected these provisions. To be stranded a thousand miles from the "Settlements" was a fate none but the most improvident and reckless cared to hazard. It is to recount some of the trials, adventures, hardships, privations, as I remember them, that the

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Chapter Page; I Farewell to the Old Southern Home 1; II First Winter in the Willamette Valley 11; III Indian Outbreak of 1855 19; IV In Which Various Experiences Are Discussed 30 V Taking Revenge on Marauding Snakes 48; VI One Sad Tale From Canyon City History 59; VII ColThompson's First Newspaper Venture 70; VIII History of the Modoc Indians 75; IX The Ben Wright Massacre 80; X Treaty With the Modocs Made 84; XI Battle in the Lava Beds 94; XII The Peace Commission's Work 109; XIII Three Days Battle in the Lava Beds 115; XIV Trailing the Fugitives 124; XV The Great Bannock War 132; XVI Snake Uprising in Eastern Oregon 144; XVII Bannocks Double on Their Tracks 149; XVIII Another Attack That Miscarried 159; XIX Reign of the Vigilantes 167; XX Passing of the Mogans 175; XXI The Lookout Lynching 178

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  • PublisherForgotten Books
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 144005679X
  • ISBN 13 9781440056796
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