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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Dorothy</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>When I was a small girl living in Salem, OR.on Mill Creek (early 1950's) my mother would drive the old Hudson car back & forth over the Barlow Trail, she loved it : ) Speaking of Samuel Barlow, we are related to him thought two "Larkin" girls who married two of Samuel Barlow's sons. My mother knew our family history, but not as much as we know now a days with the Internet & all of us Oregon trail pioneer families exchanging & giving help with loads of information to each other as we can & if we have it, we know so much more in this present age & it's great!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>My mother loved history & loved the Columbia Gorge area & would stop at every single historical marker out there. I took after my mother in these ways, as I love the scenic beauty of Oregon & I love family history.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>It would be very nice of you to take pictures of Howell Prairie area when you can, Thanks!. We had our family reunion at MT. Angel, OR. last year & went through Howell Prairie. I live in St. Helens, OR. but never make it that way, except at that family reunion time & one other time to visit Silver Falls State Park.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Thanks!! Nancy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2><STRONG>Dorothy Wrote:</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Nancy:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Your Stevens family may have joined in with another train coming through.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Quite often that happened.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>My POwell families had another train join them. It was the Hunter train. I can</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>find no record of the Powell train (about 50 wagons) and I am trying to find</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>something on the Hunter train. That way one knows about what our families</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>experienced along the way. You might try that.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>I am writing a historical novel about the Powells travel to Oregon Territory and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>I'd like to have more than what I have to make the book interesting. A lot has</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>to be fabricated to glue the facts and dates together.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>The Powells came over the trail, branched out onto the Barlow Trail to Oregon</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>City (where I live) and then up the Willamette River to Linn County, Oregon.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Howell Prairie is beautiful farming country. Sam Barlow , who built the Barlow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Trail, lived a little north of there. Linn County is quite a bit south of</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>I can take a picture of Howell Prairie area for you if you'd like. It wouldn't</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>look like in the 1800's but you could see the terrain.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Bright" size=2>Talk Later;</FONT></DIV>
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