[or-roots] Matheny surname?

[cuprum4445 at aol.com]

Folks - the name Matheny sounds familiar - did one of you have?it in your ancestry? 
You might find this information helpful.?? 
~Gerrie


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From: Shelley K
To: Shelley K
Sent: Sun, Nov 7, 2010 5:11 pm
Subject: FW: Interesting Naches Pass website

Regarding the book mentioned at the end of this message, Into the Eye of the Setting Sun, I have read it and can confirm that it is indeed a good book.? It was written by Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood, who was related to the Kirkwood Ranch people.? ?She wrote some articles for the Idaho County Free Press about the War of 1877.? There is also a book available about her brother Jasper Matheny.? They may be purchased from the Yamhill County Historical Society http://www.yamhillcountyhistory.org/Publications.php 
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From: cuprum4445 at aol.com [mailto:cuprum4445 at aol.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:34 PM
To: cuprum4445 at aol.com
Subject: Interesting Naches Pass website

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FYI: I've received?word that in 1853 the Longmire-Biles wagon train went through the Naches Pass to Western Washington.Their website is: http://www.nachestrail.org/

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The Naches Trail crosses the Cascade Range through Naches Pass, roughly from today's Bonney Lake in the west to Yakima in the east. Later the name was applied to the route from Walla Walla to Steilacoom, as an extension of the Oregon Trail.

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This route was used by Native American peoples to travel from one side of the mountains to the other, for food and trade purposes. One of the earliest written accounts of the use of this trail tells of the travel of a Lt. Johnson of the United States Exploring Expedition (Wilkes Expedition), crossing on horseback, as the Expedition explored the Pacific Northwest in 1841.

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Also, I'm told this is a good book:?
"Into the Eye of the Setting Sun: 
A Story of the West When it Was New" 
(2nd ed. 1991)?by Charlotte Matheny Kirkwood.
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