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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

Bill McGarvey and the Klamath River Indians (25 pages)

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VeOyL;U ME 122-/7NYOrs THE C Aji O:RN DAIN:S PHA 'G E23 Bill McGarvey and the Klamath River Indians Business was never “as usual” for Irish merchant Bill McGarvey among the Klamath River Indians, where an employer might have to pay for an on-the-job accident with his life. Dancers on their way to a White Deerskin dance, c. 1900. Weitch-ah-wah counted more than 3,000 Indians speaking five languages at the 1876 dance. Bill McGarvey’s store was close by the lower Klamath White Deerskin dance site. By Mrs. Lucy Thompson (Che-na-wah Weitch-ah-wah) r [= old Klamath Bluffs Store, or Fort, and in late years the Klamath Post Office, was built in 1855 or 1856 by a man named Snider. He conducted it as a trading post for Indians, soldiers and travelers alike. It was built of rough split lumber and strongly made of double walls with sawed blocks four inches thick placed between the walls, and was bulletproof, with portholes so that a few white men could defend themselves against many Indians. This store is located 24 miles up the river from its mouth, and is about 18 miles down the river from Weitchpec or the junction of the Trinity River, and something like 40 miles below Orleans Bar on the Klamath. Orleans Bar was at one time the county seat of Klamath County. The old store is on the north bank of the river on a bar that was formed in ancient times and is high enough to make it safe from all high waters. It is a beautiful, sunny spot and on the line of travel up and down the Klamath River. The north side of the river is mostly prairie along the bank, and the old Indian trail is on that side. The whites took up the Indian trails and improved them so they were traveled by all. This old store is also