[or-roots] Oregon Trail

[Darlene Casteel]

My gr-grandmother had an interview published in the Grants Pass Courier in 1927.  Some of her story is quite similar, except that a Pawnee Indian wanted the pony she was riding.  Her father refused to sell it to him, so one night he came and stole it.  She walked the rest of the way to Oregon.

Darlene
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  When I was about 5 years old my great grandmother would tell me stories about coming over on the Oregon trail.  I still remember some of them.  One that I liked a lot was when she told me that they were stopped by some Indians who demanded food from them and wanted to take their cattle as well.  This was somewhere in Idaho I think.  Anyway, the kids were all in the back of a wagon and were eaten alive by mosquitoes.  When the Indians saw all the scabs all over their faces and arms they dropped everything and ran away because they thought the kids had smallpox.

  Dale

  P.S.  I found out later after I started doing genealogy that she was reliving her parents experience and not hers because she was born in Oregon.



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