Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . eclaredsafe for settlers. The first to arrive were Indian traders, usually squaw-men,who settled at the different crossings of the old Indian trails and engaged in thebusiness of trading bad whiskey to the Indians for their cayuse ponies. Someof these probably slipped in during the fall of 58, as they were here in thespring of 59 when the first homesteaders arrived looking for locations. BillBunton, George Ives and Clubfoot George were at the crossing of WhiskeyCreek; Freelon Schnebley, k
Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . eclaredsafe for settlers. The first to arrive were Indian traders, usually squaw-men,who settled at the different crossings of the old Indian trails and engaged in thebusiness of trading bad whiskey to the Indians for their cayuse ponies. Someof these probably slipped in during the fall of 58, as they were here in thespring of 59 when the first homesteaders arrived looking for locations. BillBunton, George Ives and Clubfoot George were at the crossing of WhiskeyCreek; Freelon Schnebley, known as Stubbs, and Richard Learn, known asBig Red, at the crossing of the Touchet, where Dayton is located; Bill Rexfordwas at the crossing of the Patit. and John Turner at Pataha City; these were allbad citizens and all squaw-men except Rexford, and it was generally said amongthe Indians that he was too mean for a squaw to live with. In addition to these,the following squaw-men, who were much better citizens, were here at thattime: Louis Raboin, who lived where the trails crossed the Tucanon, having. THE COURTHOUSE, DAYTON OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 321 returned to his old place after the Indian troubles; William and Martin Bailey,who lived with their squaws on what is known as the Rainwater place at theupper end of town, and Joe Ruark, known as Kentuck, who lived with his squawnear the Star schoolhouse. The first real settlers to arrive came in the spring of1859, most of them from the Willamette Valley, many of them having seen thecountry while serving as volunteers in the Indian wars. They located claims alongthe Touchet, laid a foundation of four logs, and posted notices that they hadtaken the claims, and gone to the valley for their stock, and would return inthree months. As near as I can learn, the only one who remained at that time was IsraelDavis, usually known as Hogeye Davis, who settled where the trails left theHogeye Creek, and raised a small crop that year. This is co
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