History of the Pacific Northwest - Transcript.
Date
1951
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Abstract
"The placer mining of the 60s and the bunch grass and free range in the next decade were the prelude of the homesteading period that took the last bit of land from the Indians unless it was on a reservation, and even these were as insecure as promises. Sheep overran the range lands and became a greater industry than cattle and farming and irrigation grew with villages and cities until by 1900, the land hungry settlers turned to the last poor soil in Eastern Washington, that along the Priest Rapids and White Bluffs country along the Chia-Wana where the dwindling Wanapums, with fewer horses and without their leader, Smo-Wha-La who had died, held to their religion."
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20 page typed transcription, created by Click Relander.
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Smohalla