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Comment on On The Road In Ohio by Janet Walker

Janet Walker — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:27:18 +0000

Wonderful! It’s good to travel back to old stomping grounds now and then. Lotsa’ food for thought!

Comment on Did Captain Jack have Trade Beads? by Jim Hertel

Jim Hertel — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:59:10 +0000

Thanks sis for the write up… Very interesting area, all sorts of history, that is still fresh in minds today. If you are interested I also have several OLD family names in the area on my FaceBook community page… ” you might be a Modocer If…” If you have questions they maybe answered there… ( http://www.facebook.com/groups/156377901111960/ )

Comment on Face At My Door New Look by Janet Walker

Janet Walker — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:31:24 +0000

A fun Music Website to check out! I really enjoyed the little movies and getting to actually hear the tunes. Best wishes for the New Year!

Comment on Owen Walker by Shel Prince

Shel Prince — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:08:49 +0000

I am interested in a men’s abalone bracelet. I have a photo of what I am looking for. Please contact me.I

Comment on Chris Nowicki Serigraphs by Janet Walker

Janet Walker — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:22:59 +0000

Chris’ Serigraph technique is absolutely excellent! He is the top man in the field. Rock on, Chris!

Comment on Searching for trade beads in NE Nevada by Janet Walker

Janet Walker — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:12:51 +0000

Oh Yeah! Holy Crow! Those were tough times. It was probably what year, Owen? After Prohibition, ya think? (Movin’ kinda’ fast ya don’t suppose he saw any trade beads or Will James do ya! Ha-ha:) !

Comment on Searching for trade beads in NE Nevada by Owen

Owen — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:52:49 +0000

I will have to tell some Elko stories, although they have nothing to do with trade beads. I visited Elko twice in my younger days and my car broke down there both times, so I got superstitious about the place and tried to avoid traveling through there if I could. In the early 1980’s we were living in Pleasant Grove UT, and my step father asked me to help him survey some mining claims in Nevada. We left very early in the morning and stopped for lunch in Elko, so I was telling Dad my hard luck Elko stories while we ate lunch. He was not impressed.
He told me that he was not very fond of Elko either. The story goes that when he was a lad of 17 or 18 he, like every kid in America, wanted to be a cowboy. Now Dad ran away from home when he was 13, so he was very good at riding freight trains and Hoboing around, and he had read some of Will James books, then he learned that Will James had a big ranch near Elko, so he was going to get a job on his ranch and be a real cowboy. While riding in a boxcar he met another man who was older than he, and they talked away the long slow hours. He seemed to be a very nice man.
When they arrived in Elko the older man said “C’mon I’ll buy you a drink.” They went into a bar where the man proceeded to slam down shot after shot of whiskey, until he could hardly sit the bar stool. Finally the bartender told him he could have no more whiskey as he was too drunk, at which point the man pulled out a gun and shot the bartender in the face! Dad realized he had been seen by many coming in with this man, and would be wanted and maybe hung right along with him so he bolted. He managed to get on a train, but not in a car he got “on the rods”, which are the steel rods underneath the box car, a very dangerous place to ride! Then he told me he did not come back to Elko for about 40 years!

Comment on Searching for trade beads in NE Nevada by Mario

Mario — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:01:27 +0000

Great post, loved the link to know something about Will James

Comment on Songwriters In Seattle by Bob McConnell

Bob McConnell — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:08:02 +0000

Are you by any chance the sister of Brian Walker who grew up in White Center, son of Winky Walker?

Comment on Trade Beads at a Major Fishing Spot by Janet Walker

Janet Walker — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:52:37 +0000

“Grand Ronde.Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Nez Perce, and Yakima Indians wanted to trade with the Pioneers In 1845. Pioneers said the Indians wanted to trade Fish, wheat, potatoes, Peas, squash & corn for anything. Pioneers reported they looked very prosperous and healthy. Women beautiful and covered in trade beads and woven basket hats.” This is info found on signs at the reststop in the Grande Ronde valley. Reported to have been excerpts from Pioneer journals, 1845.
These were the same tribes trading at Celilo Falls with the Chinook, Klikitat, Umatilla and others from down the Columbia River. There were a bunch of tribes that came to Celilo Falls to fish, trade and bury their dead on Memalooose Island in the Columbia.