Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . area of our four counties of this history and had no troublein making their way, though in mid-winter, down the Snake, then at its loweststage and not difificult to navigate, to that most interesting spot, the junction ofthe Snake and Columbia. Thus the advance party on this historic journey, thefirst of the fur-traders, though later than the Lewis and Clark expedition, reachedthe Columbia. With their canoes floating U])on its broad waters they had an easyand pleasant journey, after their
Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . area of our four counties of this history and had no troublein making their way, though in mid-winter, down the Snake, then at its loweststage and not difificult to navigate, to that most interesting spot, the junction ofthe Snake and Columbia. Thus the advance party on this historic journey, thefirst of the fur-traders, though later than the Lewis and Clark expedition, reachedthe Columbia. With their canoes floating U])on its broad waters they had an easyand pleasant journey, after their former desperate straits, to the rude stockadeof Astoria, which they reached on January 18, 1812. The main party had a moredistressing time. After nearly starving and freezing they turned toward themountains from the ])resent Huntington and must have very nearly followed thecourse of the present railroad from that point to the Grande Ronde. Theywere at just about the limit of endurance when on December 30th, looking downfrom their snowy elevation they saw far below them a sunny valley, looking to the. PUBLIC SCHOOL BLILDING. DlXiE OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 49 winter-wasted refugees like a vision of paradise. Thither hastening they foundseveral lodges of Indians who took pity on their forlorn and destitute state andprovided them with food and fuel. Irving gives with his graphic pen a brilliant-narration of the celebration of New Years day in this valley of salvation forthis party. Rested and recuperated by these few days in the Grande Ronde, theyessayed their last tussle with the mountains by scaling the snowy heights betweentheir resting place and the Umatilla. Reaching that warm and beautiful valleythey found that their deliverance was at hand, for there they took a two-weeksrest. On January 2ist, having started again, they beheld before them a blue floodnearly a mile wide hastening toward the sunset, evidently the Great journey afoot down the river to the Cascades a
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