The 1880-1881 winter was worst on record. Later found dead under horse, area called Deadman Bluff. , most in Olympia and Vancouver, 4,000 in Walla Walla and 3,500 in Spokane. In the Washington Territory, extending past Othello from Cunningham.ġ876 50,000 head of cattle grazed in the Big Bend areaĪnd were driven to Wyoming for marketing at $15.00 each.Ĭhief Joseph says “I will fight no more”.ġ879 75,000 live in what will become Washington State Is now the Olympia/Puget Sound Port area.ġ874 The Northern Pacific Railroad builds the lineįrom Kalama (Vancouver) to Olympia (Puget Sound Port).ġ875 The Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grant was 80 miles wide Spokane & Seattle areas have settlers.ġ869 The Union to Pacific Transcontinental Railroadġ872 The first settlers in the Othello areaīegin cattle ranching along lower Crab Creek, (Hutchinson, McManamon and Blythe).ġ873 Major center of commerce in Washington State , migration via the Oregon Trail begins in earnest. Boiler and machinery for mining hauled over this route to Pend Oreille Lake. , which would eventually grant the land Othello is on to the Northern Pacific Railroad.ġ863 The boundaries of the modern State of Washingtonġ864 Steam boat service from Portland to White BluffĮstablished with road to Pend Oreille Lake. , with overflow of settlers to Vancouver.ġ862 Abraham Lincoln signs the Transcontinental Land Grant Railroad bill People traveled through, but no one lived in the Big Bend area.ġ861 Major center of commerce is Portland (Idaho & Montana) with what was left, 12,000 people in what is now Washington State. (White Bluff Road and Caribou Trail crossed near Wheeler) (Caribou Trail gone by 1885)ġ860 Oregon State formed leaving the Washington Territory
(Road) between Fort Wahlah Wahlah to Fort Okanogan passes by Scootney Springs southeast of Othello. Frasier’s Wagon Rd.) between Fort Simco and Fort Colville crosses Crab Creek approx. Was performed to find transcontinental railroad routes over the Cascades and includes the Crab Creek Coulee route.ġ857 The White Bluff Military Supply and Ferry was established. In the Inland Empire area is Walla Walla. Occurs causing Fort Wahlah Wahlah to be moved to the current site of Walla Walla. (Wallula) is bypassed by the Oregon Trail. Is firmly established going through Walla Walla (Whitman Mission) and down the Columbia River.
Black tail deer, mountain sheep and goats extinct. (Later spelled Skutenai, gone by 1830.) Scootney Spring (now under the Scootney Reservoir) is named after them.
Records indicate 3,000 Sokuik Indians reside in the area north of where the Snake River joins the Columbia River.
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