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Pioneer recounts 53 years of frontier battles and homesteading
A. P. Woodard of Athena recalls fifty three years in Washington Idaho and Oregon as a private in a Walla Walla company. He describes the Battle of Walla Walla and skirmishes along Dry Creek and nearby fields. The article also notes Woodard helping locate the Northern Pacific railroad line in 1872 and includes multiple legal notices from Athena courts and estates in Umatilla County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. P. Woodard
Athena
West
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
Walla Walla
Walla Walls
Kelly
Spokesman-Review
Jont
Dry Creek
la Rocque
Romane Rimellard
Bennett
Kelso
Woodard
Northern Pacific Railroad
Wallola
Paseo
Sandhills
Spokane
Eastwick
Justice Court of the District of
Umatilla County
State of
A. D
Constance
Gammons
Athena Press
C. G. Chamberlain
Tustice of the Peace
Peterson