64 January 2002 La Posta
Figure 2-6 This cover was postmarked Pendleton on May 28, 1879. It carried Lieutenant
Brown’s letter written while waiting in that town to transfer his prisoners.
cently with [Moses] and gave me his picture on
will suit me very well as I get out this summer
his return. While at Washington & enroute they
just to knock around & see the country.
wore civilian clothes but this afternoon I met him
Yours Truly
coming down to see me on business and he had
W.C. Brown
his face painted and his gaily colored hat & blan-
kets on, as wild an Indian as can be seen any
To Be Continued
where. The Cayuses are very
wealthy.
Howlish Wampo one of the
chiefs owns between two & three
thousand ponies and Agent
Cronoyer told me that an Indian
wasn’t considered hardly respect-
able if he did not own over 100
horses.
The tribes here are the Cay-
uses, Umatillas & Walla Wallas.
They are fine looking Indians,
paint their faces red and [brown].
The gayest & brightest colored
blankets that I ever saw & it is
from these fellows that I am to get
my scouts. They all talk the Nez
Perce language. There is a very
slight prospect of my accompa-
nying a party of them with my
Map 2 Oregon circa 1876 showing railroad and steamer routes. Arrows
scouts over to some of the reser-
indicate locations of Fort Klamath, Roseburg, The Dalles and Pendleton.
vations over in Montana. That
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