What to see in America . f five hundred dollars. Later five ofthe leaders in the massacre were arrested, and they werehanged at Oregon City. The Charmed Tomahawk is nowto be seen among the treasured relics of the Oregon PioneerAssociation in Portland. An American Fort Walla Walla was raised on the banks ofMill Creek in 1856, and there the city of to-day graduallydeveloped. The old fort still occupies an honored place inthe center of the city. Few strangers leave the valley with-out driving six miles to the hillock on which stands a monu-ment to the massacred missionaries and settlers whose bon
What to see in America . f five hundred dollars. Later five ofthe leaders in the massacre were arrested, and they werehanged at Oregon City. The Charmed Tomahawk is nowto be seen among the treasured relics of the Oregon PioneerAssociation in Portland. An American Fort Walla Walla was raised on the banks ofMill Creek in 1856, and there the city of to-day graduallydeveloped. The old fort still occupies an honored place inthe center of the city. Few strangers leave the valley with-out driving six miles to the hillock on which stands a monu-ment to the massacred missionaries and settlers whose bonesare entombed at its base. On the Spokane River, not far from its confluence with theColumbia, the Northwest Fur Company built a post about1810. Yrom there adventurous voyageurs went forththrough the solitudes, pausing to trade at the Indian villages,taking red women cheerfully in marriage, and as cheerfullydeserting them when convenient. But the fur post was athing of the past when, in 1872, three millers set up sawing. Smelt Fishing on Cowlitz River 524 What to See in America
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