Page:The Early Indian Wars of Oregon.djvu/244

 strong.

ceeded up the valley, finding the settlers much disturbed by the conduct of the Indians, and rumors of attacks upon travelers. 28 Scott found but few of the predatory natives in the Wallamet, they having retired through the moun tain passes to places of safety. On the seventh of July he was ordered to proceed to southeastern Oregon to escort the immigrants by the southern route, a duty which he performed with only nineteen men, and without serious interference by the natives. 29

C "* John Saxtou, who wrote a little book about Oregon, was coming from California with a band of one hundred horses in April. His party consisted of six men, and the Klamath and Rogue river Indians hanging upon their trail caused the loss of sixty-five of their animals : Oregon Spectator, May 4, 1848.

20 Scott was a Virginian by birth, and had been lieutenant-governor of Missouri. In 1845 he crossed the plains to California, coming to Oregon in the spring of 1846, and settling in Yamhill county. In 184$ he went to the gold fields of California, and the following year removed to Lane county in this state, where he was largely inter ested in stock-raising and lumbering. In 1858 he went by sea to New York, thence to Kentucky, and was on his way home with a herd of blooded horses, when he was killed by the Pit river Indians near Goose lake, and his horses taken.