If you want to actually look at a copy of this book, it might help you all to know that it is availabe on interlibrary loan through, at least, the Oregon State Library in Salem, and Eastern Oregon University in Pendleton. Check with your local library about how to order it. (I have the OSL copy currently! but will be returning it soon).

Kevin Mittge, Reference Librarian, Florence, Oregon
Researching: Robbins, Hamilton, Hinton, Blackwell, Shirtz, etc. of Grant Co., Oregon

Hi Steve....While searching for info for someone else, your LAAM surname jumped off the page. I thought that it was an interesting tidbit so here goes.

The following was written by Jessie Stormer McKern, the daughter of Sarah Dunlap Stormer. It was extracted from the Long Creek Book. Page 244. It is typed exactly as written. The only thing I added were the begining and ending quotes.

"Abe LAAM, an uncle of my father, Frank Stormer, had a sheep ranch in northern Grant, Court Rock, Oregon. I think he had a helper that I don't know, nor his name either, an employee or a partner.

When the Indians moved into the area they started to join the little fort of settlers in Long Creek and were going around the valleys, stayin' in the timber, avoiding the the valleys where the Indians were congregated.

Abe LAAM had a good horse and a new rifle. His partner wanted to cross the valley toward Long Creek. Abe refused to go and and tried to keep him from going but he said "Give me the horse and the gun and I'll make it" The Indians killed him just in front of the Max Justice Ranch. He was buried there and later moved into the Fox Cemetery. Finally there are stones that can be carved when freshly dug and my father and mother fixed one and put it on his grave. They asked me to take them over, which we did, but I can't remember his name.

Abe LAAM stayed in the timber and reached Long Creek safely and later returned to ranch and home."

Sharon

Just to let folks know that I have met with two ladies from the Portland area who have contacted me about the book. If anyone else is interested in getting together to see the book I am posting my new email address: SharonTate@attbi.com
I have scanned several pages for each of these ladies and I hope that in some small way I have "paid forward" the favor that was given to me by the lady who originally posted the book.

Sharon just saw your message about the Long Creek Book.
Would you look and see if there are any of the following names in it.
Alva (Alvy) Kinder & Martha Farmer
Mary Caroline Kinder & Val Peterson
Joseph Cortis Kinder & Edith Antionette Dean
Arthur Augustus Dean & Sarah Electa Covert Dean.
Alva was my husbands G.Grandfather
Joseph Cortis Kinder was his Grandfather.
Arthur Augustus Dean was his G.Grandfather and a past Master of Long Creek Masonic Lodge #90 in 1892.
Also Vina Icey Kinder & William Walker Hinton.
Thank you for your help.
Jackie Purdy - Shingle Springs, CA.

Hi Jackie......Thought I had better respond to your post before you gave up on me. I have spent the last 3 days (spare time at least) looking for the names the you requested. I am sorry to say that I have only found a positive match for two of those names......Vina and William Walker HINTON there is about a page of info in which they are mentioned. I can scan this and send it to you via snail mail if you like. I have looked over all 316 pages which include 200-300 photos with captions plus stories and I can't seem to locate the other folks that you are looking for. There were some mentions of FARMER (surname but not the FARMER's you are looking for...but they may be related)! The ladies who authored the book did a remarkable job in including all of the families that they did.

Let me know where you would like me to send the info.

Sharon Tate in Sunny Oregon

What is the title of the Long Creek book? Who is the author?

The name of the book in question is: "In the Land of Bunch Grass, Gold and Trees", the ladies who compiled it are Reiba Carter Smith and Louetta Zumwalt Shaw.

Sharon Tate

I know that you posted long ago but I was just going through infromation in grand county.
My family the McHaley were suppose to have found this area while taking supplies to the minners.
Infact there are many McHaley buried in and around this area.
Is there any talk of McHaleys in this book?
My g-g-grandfather is buried in Monument, Oregon at Cottonwood creek.
Thankyou
Skip

Skip, et al,
Like Skip, I am just reading through old messages to see if I might find anything new on Long Creek and the families I research there. Curl - Keeney - Crismon (Monument) - Carter - Dustin and a number of others that have resulted from the use of this book through the Oregon State Library on loan.

In February of 2004, I was lucky enough to catch up with Rieba Carter Smith. At that time she was thinking about updating and re-publishing the book; time and cost were definite factors in whether it would happen.

If you are related to one person in the book, you are probably related to three or more. It is one of the best local history books I have ever encountered. And, 'tho' Rieba had never heard the Curl name except from one of her Carter relatives, I discovered through her book how the Curls are related to several other families, yet left no record behind with the Curl name on it except through the female lines. Even the grandfather of them all, who represented Grant Coo for one term in Oregon legislature, barely got a decent obit in 1890 and no grave site to be found!
Skip, when it came to the Monument relatives, this book had very little on them.
Dani Lee

I just learned of the book by Reiba Carter Smith. While going through some of my mother's communication, after her death. I came across an envelope that my mother had addressed to Reiba in Long Creek. We know next to nothing about Charles Carter, who we believe married my Ggrandmother, Blanche Morrow, on June 5, 1912. I can not find any information on a divorce, or his death. Can anyone give me any information on where I might look, next? Thank you!
Barbara Eidel