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North Western Journeys: Spokane Pioneers and Scablands Settlers

North Western Journeys: Spokane Pioneers and Scablands Settlers

Lawton, John

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Travel GeneralGeneral PhotographyRegional: Pacific Northwest

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ISBN10: 1634990153
ISBN13: 9781634990158
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: Jan 30 2017
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
A century-old family saga of westward migration unfolds through letters, diaries, and photographs revealing triumphs and hardships.

This family saga of westward migration is told through the voices of people who lived 100 years ago by means of letters, diaries, oral history and photographs. It includes a memoir of the author's improbable discoveries as he found the stories of the grandfather he never knew.
The Lawtons' first ancestor arrived in Massachusetts in 1635. Its succeeding generations followed forest cutting to the west, across the northern states, until one branch of the family arrived in frontier Spokane in 1890. Will and Irene Lawton followed a string of settlers from Wisconsin, where the pine forests were playing out after a quarter century of logging.
They established homes and businesses in Spokane, then left in 1906 and settled a few miles west in the scablands of the Columbia Plateau, where they bought land, took up a homestead, and commenced farming and storekeeping. The dream worked until misfortune and flawed assumptions eventually led to the loss of all they had built.
The family had been multi-generational and closely knit. But by 1920 the family had scattered because of untimely deaths and the collapse of homesteading. As a fatherless boy, Walter Lawton, Will's son, spent years in Idaho's mountains herding sheep to get by.

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