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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Thanks Trisha, I have gran parents came to La Grande Oregon from Utah up the Oregon trail to La grande and settled at Island City oregon. Also alot of family settled in Wallowa County. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Thank You again for the information.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Leonard C. Couch</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 8/8/2005 8:49:56 AM </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><STRONG><EM>The Grande Ronde Valley and Blue Mountains: Impressions and Experience of Travelers and Emigrants, The Oregon Trail, 1812-1880</EM>," a report by Stephen Dow Beckham for the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, La Grande, Oregon. February 16, 1991. Beckham found his resources from historical societies, libraries and archives from Oregon, California, Washington, Indiana and Connecticut. There are hundreds of entries in the report. <SPAN class=265214515-08082005>I only posted a few of them on the </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN class=265214515-08082005><STRONG>Umatilla County History web site that did years ago. </STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=265214515-08082005><STRONG>There is a Bibliography in the book. I don't know if the USFS had more copies printed or not. I managed to get their last copy but I no longer have it. I gave it to a friend so I am not able to do any look ups. You might check to see if there are copies available through Inter-Library Loan.</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=265214515-08082005><STRONG>Trish</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Nancy Lee Adams<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 08, 2005 8:47 AM<BR><B>To:</B> or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] emigrant diaries<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>I wished I knew, because my (ggg-grandfather) Hanson Stevens family left Keokuck, Iowa & </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>arrived Howell Prairie/Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon abt. Oct. 9, 1852.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Same goes for my McCubbins Clan arrived Howell Prairie/Silverton, Marion Co., Oregon abt. Oct. 9, 1852 from Franklin Co., Missouri.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>In fact my (ggg-grandfather) James McCubbins's son--Samuel McCubbins married a daughter of Hanson Stevens--Sarah Ellen Stevens, both pioneer families of 1852. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Please let me know if you find or</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>anyone else knows of a "travel diary" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Thanks! Nancy </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><I><B>From:</B></I> </FONT></FONT><A href="mailto:darlene@thecasteels.net"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Darlene Casteel</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 08/08/05 07:50:38</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida Bright"><I><B>To:</B></I> </FONT></FONT><A href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us"><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Oregon Roots web site</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>James and Eliza Jane Hamlin left Iowa in April and arrived in Oregon in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>October of 1852. Does anyone know of a "travel diary" kept by a fellow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>traveler on this trek to the "promised land"?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Darlene Casteel</FONT></DIV>
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