This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...their friends that "Boston man, Boston Olutchman and a tenas Boston man" had arrived, meaning that a white man, his wife and little boy nad arrived. This was the first pale face woman and child they had ever seen, hence their curiosity was without bounds. Mr. Dement had not more than made camp before Till DaA-id and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...their friends that "Boston man, Boston Olutchman and a tenas Boston man" had arrived, meaning that a white man, his wife and little boy nad arrived. This was the first pale face woman and child they had ever seen, hence their curiosity was without bounds. Mr. Dement had not more than made camp before Till DaA-id and his little tribe of forty or fifty followers came down the creek to see their new neighbors. They brought a string of nice trout and showed every act of friendly feeling that they could devise. When Mrs. Dement took the fish to the creek to prepare them for the frying pun, several of the squaws followed her. When they saw that she was going to use a knife in the process they took the fish from her saying that would never do, as the Great Spirit would not send any more fish up the stream if a knife was used. So the squaws took a sharp edged mussel shell and cleaned the fish. After they had watched attentively the white people cook and eat their meal, they retired to their rancherie. Dement and Cunningham, in a few days made the cabin habitable. A corral was made and thus a foundation for a home with a small start in stock was inaugurated among the savages in a vast wilderness that, gave great promises which were more than fulfilled in after years, as that home is one of the best on the Pacific coast at this writing. A blacksmith shop was soon erected in which Mr. Dement did well, shoeing horses and mules for travelers who were going to the Johnson mines frequently, and making butcher knives became profitable, although this assisted the pionaer to support his family. Having laid by a little money, he borrowed Perry B, Marple's mule and journeyed to the Willamette Valley and purchased four more cows. While on his way home he learned that t...
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