[or-roots] I Need a History Lesson

[Bob Casebeer]

Les, Among the documents from the WPA interviews for Douglas County located 
in the Douglas County Library in Roseburg there is an account of one of the 
Douglas County pioneers who crossed the Isthmus of Panama, went out to a 
ship docked off the Pacific shore by packet, and watched as cattle were 
forced to swim out to the ship at anchor, and then hoisted by a crane onto 
the ship.  The reason: Those cows were to be steak and roast for those 
traveling on the ship up to San Francisco, a spot from which either the 
would be residents of Oregon would travel up the California Trail into 
Southern Oregon, or go by ship up to Astoria, and then by boat to Portland 
and move down into the Willamette or Umpqua or Rogue Valleys by wagon.  Very 
interesting interview...unfortunately I have forgotten the man's name, but 
it would not be hard to find it in the notebook that is housed in the 
reference section of the Douglas County Library. Bob Casebeer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:58 PM
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> Carla;
>
> I didn't include that route in my response because I figured from Missouri
> it was unlikely they would have come that way. My maternal great grand
> mother's family came that way, or at least their furniture did, I'm not
> sure, they might have gone by the Panama route. I know some of my kin did 
> it
> that way, I found one of the relatives on some document from there. A lot 
> of
> folks that tried that crossing got sick from various thing and didn't make
> it. For folks with a relative that disappeared between the east and west
> coast in the good old days that is a possibility.
>
> My maternal grand father may have come from the other direction, we don't
> know all the facts, but he mentioned being in Calcutta as a seaman before 
> he
> jumped ship in California.
>
> Les C
>
>
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>
>
> There was another way that a small number of people came to
> Oregon/Washington and that was by ship "around the Horn".  One set of my
> great-great grandparents came to Washington that way ca. 1865.
>
> Carla
>
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