The establishment of law and order on western plains . Pierre as hetramped towards France from Polandthrough the snows with the remnants ofNapoleons army and imagine that therewas some sort of an attraction in thatjourney that left its virus in his veins, tobe handed down to his descendants. But I am not leaving here for , I never will forsake Oregon. I amleaving my property behind and two of mychildren to run our business and look afterour affairs until our return. Soon mywife, our daughter Estella and our sonDewain, together with your humble ser-vant will hit the trail for a journey o
The establishment of law and order on western plains . Pierre as hetramped towards France from Polandthrough the snows with the remnants ofNapoleons army and imagine that therewas some sort of an attraction in thatjourney that left its virus in his veins, tobe handed down to his descendants. But I am not leaving here for , I never will forsake Oregon. I amleaving my property behind and two of mychildren to run our business and look afterour affairs until our return. Soon mywife, our daughter Estella and our sonDewain, together with your humble ser-vant will hit the trail for a journey of sev-eral thousand miles to cover a period ofseveral months. Perhaps on this trip we can do somegood for our adopted state, our dear Ore-gon, by inducing now and then a settler to come and become one of us. Which wouldnot only benefit Oregon but the personsthat came to join us. The time to come isright now, while land values are low andopportunities great. Very truly,Willian East 80th St. North,Portland, , 1915. 8 CHAPTER HIS book might bet-ter, perhaps, ^ havebeen given the title ofA Child of the Wan-derlust, for it dealswith my life, whichhas been an eventfulone from the time Iwas fifteen years ofage up to the present;and I intend that itshall so continue for I expect to die withmy boots on. I came naturally by my no-madic traits, I inherited them from myforefathers and no doubt the actions ofthose known to me were but a repetition ofthe acts of their forefathers. In tracing my genealogy back throughmy ancestors I have never been able to gofarther than the rise of Napoleon, owingprincipally to the difference in names. ForI find that the cognomens Deveney, Devin- 9 ny, Devmne, Devney and DeVeney, as wellas Devenny and even de Veney, are prac-tically interchangeable and signify the onelamily. Just which is the proper name Ido not know further than that we readthere were three brothers of the name ofDeVeney with Napoleon in his campaignagainst Russia
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