Ancient Places (27 page)

  
1
:  filed a Declaration of Intent: Naturalization Records, Idaho County, Idaho. Federal Records Center.

  
2
:  returned to eastern Canada: Records, 1898-99, Ontario School of Practical Science. University of Toronto Archives.

  
3
:  Manning was in charge of a large display: “The Mines at the Exposition.”
Mining
5 (January 1900): 4–11.

  
4
:  traveling in northeast Washington in the company of a millionaire mine owner:
“Local Brevities,”
Bossburg Journal,
January 5, 1900, p. 1.

  
5
:  in charge of thirty employees: “Local Brevities,”
Bossburg Journal,
August 10, 1900, p. 1.

  
6
:  locating and filing mining claims: Stevens County Quartz Records, Book 11, Washington State Archives, Eastern Regional Branch, Cheney.

  
7
:  visited the superintendent of the Colville Indian Agency: Albert M. Anderson to W. A. Jones, 25 October 1900. Records of the Colville Indian Agency, Letters Sent. National Archives and Records Administration, Seattle.

  
8
:  superintendent of three mines: “Local Briefs,”
Kettle River Journal,
December 19, 1902; January 2 and June 5, 1903.

  
9
:  reputation as a ‘high flyer’: “Local Briefs,”
Kettle River Journal,
July 17, 1903, p. 1.

10
:  Joseph presented Manning with a council pipe … and subsequent artifact quotations: W. M. Manning Collection Registry, Eastern Washington Historical Society, Spokane.

11
:  “The spear is pointed with bone”: Douglas,
Journal,
203.

12
:  subsisted with the Columbia River salmon: Chance,
People of the Falls,
10–13.

13
:  employers at the Easter Sunday mine: “Easter Sunday Is Hibernated,”
Kettle River Journal,
October 14, 1905, p. 1.

14
:  signed on as deputy surveyor for Stevens County: “News at Home,”
Kettle River Journal,
November 18, 1905, p. 1.

15
:  “the wildest of all Indians”: Sidney Waters to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 26 June 1884. Records of the Washington Superintendency. National Archives and Records Administration, Seattle.

16
:  “The old people that are blind”: US Department of Interior,
Report,
81.

17
:  “his people in the Calispel valley are being abused”: “Lo Finds A Friend,”
Spokesman-Review,
May 28, 1895, p. 3:3.

18
:  “Kalispel women traded briskly in trinkets and beadwork.” Fahey,
Kalispel Indians,
84.

19
:  Kalispel elder Francis Cullooyah suggests: Francis Cullooyah, conversations with the author, March 2008.

20
:  “I remember a guy brought in a saddle”: Ibid.

21
:  Jesuit priest traveled to the Pend Oreille Valley on Christmas Eve: “University Head Ministers to Indians at Midnight Mass,”
Spokesman-Review,
January 1, 1913, p. 6:1.

22
:  Manning appeared before a judge: Stevens County Naturalization Records, September, 1906, Washington State Archives, Eastern Regional Branch, Cheney.

23
:  Manning successfully ran for the joint position: “Stevens County Republican Ticket,”
Kettle River Journal,
September 8, 1906, p. 1.

24
:  Manning’s activities for fall:
Colville Examiner.

25
:  “the display window of the Stannus-Keller Hardware Company”:
Colville Examiner,
August 22, 1906.

26
:  “
Tle
means ‘mountains’ ”:
Pauline Flett, conversations with the author, winter 2008.

27
:  “always a head above everyone else”: Ibid.

28
:  At Deep Creek, blending traditional and modern practices: Ruby and Brown,
The Spokane Indians,
188–89.

29
:  “He told father and mother”: “Life in the Spokane Country Fifty Years Ago.” Lewis Papers, Box 1, Folder 33.

30
:  distinctive rock in the river: Pauline Flett, conversations with the author, winter 2008.

31
:  “Intelligent, serious, dignified and straight-forward”: John M. Webster to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 11 February 1907. Webster Papers.

32
:  Mattie affixed her thumbprint: Colville Agency Records, April 1, 1911. Robert Ruby Papers, Box 1, Folder SI 16, Eastern Washington Historical Society, Spokane.

33
:  “like most of the old full bloods”: John M. Webster to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 12 June 1911. Webster Papers.

34
:  Three Mountains led a council meeting: “Indians Get on Trail of Dill,”
Spokesman-Review,
March 1, 1916, p. 10:1.

35
:  William Three Mountains the Younger died: “Chief Threemountain,”
Spokesman-Review,
January 15, 1937.

36
:  “W. M. Manning, who has loaned:”
Spokesman-Review,
September 16, 1916.

37
:  “This loss of course is that of your institution”: Manning to William S. Lewis, 22 March 1927, Manning Papers.

38
:  “The loss of valuable articles from this collection”: William S. Lewis to A. G. Avery, 23 March 1927, Manning Papers.

39
:  an advisor for the mining division of the War Production Board: “Manning Returns,”
Helena Independent Record,
May 15, 1942.

40
:  felled by a stroke: “William M. Manning Dies Sunday in Bozeman Hospital,”
Helena Independent Record,
April 2, 1945.

41
:  “We will move on”: Michael Holloman, conversation with the author, February 2008.

  
1
:  He was every bit of thirty-three years old: Watson,
Lives Lived,
vol. 3, 891.

  
2
:  “would have to be provided for in better shape”: “Antoine Plante, Mountain Man,”
Spokesman-Review,
December 10, 1933.

  
3
:  “venerable lady”: Steele,
An Illustrated History,
202.

  
4
:  The young farm girl would listen: Helen Cook,
Time Ticks On,
4.

  
5
:  “Stensgar dolomite”: Campbell,
Geology of the Magnesite Belt,
13–16.

  
6
:  1902 Washington Geological Survey report: Landes,
Non-Metalliferous Resources.

  
7
:  Northwest Magnesite: Buchanan,
Magnsite Mining;
Campbell,
Geology of the Magnesite Belt,
36–46.

  
8
:  Byron Riblet: Fahey, “Brothers Riblet.”; Wells,
Tramway Titan.

  
1
:  Besano fossils: UNESCO, “Monte San Giorgio.”

  
2
:  mixed hardwood forest: Robinson, “Stratigraphy and Sedimentology.”

  
3
:  state geologist visited the A. B. Pit: Glover,
Clays and Shales,
287–89.

  
4
:  Battista Giovanni Ponfatto obituary:
Colville Statesman-Examiner,
May 29, 1909.

  
5
:  Leno and his friend Burton Stewart: Chuck Stewart, correspondence with the author, 2002.

  
6
:  “At the plant in Clayton I learned to work”: “He Won’t Sell His Paintings,”
Spokesman-Review,
December 7, 1958.

  
7
:  “I’m no artist”: Millier, Arthur. “Uncivilized ‘Civilization’ Depicts World Turmoil.”
Los Angeles Times,
March 8, 1942.

  
8
:  Leno as constant entertainment: Chuck Stewart, correspondence with the author, 2002.

  
9
:  Children of all ages: Karen Meyer, conversation with the author, February 2002.

10
:  “I can paint them without half trying”: “He Won’t Sell His Paintings,”
Spokesman-Review,
December 7, 1958.

11
:  “Leno Prestini may not be a trained artist: Ste. Marie, “Forward.”

12
:  Prestini’s
From Clay to Clay
mural: Now owned by Loon Lake Historical Society, Loon Lake, WA.

13
:  “Prestini could be a little tough to deal with”: Neal Fosseen, conversation with the author, January 25, 2002.

  
1
:  “That’s what we call the thatching ants.”: Klotz,
Urban Pest Management,
40–41.

  
2
:  “Birds singing, the pizmire, flies, beetles, in motion”: Moulton,
Journals,
vol. 7, 192.

  
3
:  “its stomach was gorged with winged ants.” Lord,
A Naturalist,
160.

  
4
:  As the alates began to fly: Hansen,
Carpenter Ants,
102–105.

  
5
:  “Ant Time”: Hölldobbler,
Journey to the Ants,
11–12.

  
6
:  carpenter ants proved to be a good subject: Hansen,
Carpenter Ants.

  
7
:  “nozzle jockeys”: Klotz,
Urban Pest Management,
1–10.

  
8
:  Researchers termed it a “supercolony”: McIver, “A Supercolony,” 18–29.

  
9
:  “Ant tightened his belt in order to bury the dead”: Boas,
Kutenai Tales,
213.

  
1
:  “No causes whatever have … ever acted”: Lyell vol. 1, 153.

  
2
:  Sanpoil Volcanics: Steve Box, USGS, conversations with the author, 2013.

  
3
:  the clear imprint of a dawn redwood twig: Johnson,
Cruisin
’, 3.

  
4
:  He learned when to linger in the shadows: Wehr,
Accidental Collector,
9–10, 222–23.

  
5
:  “everywhere I went I came upon traces”: Ibid., 34.

  
6
:  “weird sense for famous people”: Kathleen Pigg, conversation with the author, February 2013.

  
7
:  “I tried to paint landscapes”: Wehr,
Accidental Collector,
81.

  
8
:  “chilling sensation of time and space”:
Ibid., 49.

  
9
:  “go to the Oregon coast and collect some more agates”: Wehr,
Eighth
Lively Art, 30.

10
:  “Susanne Langer, with her insatiable interest”: Wehr,
Accidental
Collector, 117.

11
:  began to correspond with George Beck”: Ibid., 104.

12
:  Wehr had a very pure eye: Joseph Goldberg, conversation with the author, March 25, 2013.

13
:  associates recognized the quality of Wehr’s work: Ellen Ferguson, conversation with the author, June 13, 2013.

14
:  Wehr told the museum’s curator: Beth Sellars, conversation with the author, February 18, 2013.

15
:  “After viewing the patterns and designs”: Kathy Brainard Cook, “Exhibit offers ‘New Look’ at artist Mark Tobey,”
Spokesman-Review,
March 6, 1988, p. C-10.

16
:  “The interesting thing for me tonight”: Dan Webster, “Good Artists, Good Friends,”
Spokesman-Review,
September 19, 1991.

17
:  “He never really told me much”: Beth Sellars, conversation with the author, March 3, 2013.

18
:  his Montana cohort named it Osmunda wehrii: Miller, “Osmundia wehrii.”

19
:  “a time for the similarly rapid appearance”: Wehr, “Eocene Orchards,” 13–14.

20
:  “Fossils from the vicinity of Republic”: Wehr, “Paleobotanical Significance,” 25.

21
:  new species of fossil fir tree: Schorn,
Abies milleri,
1–7.

22
:  significant 1987 US Geological Survey paper: Wolfe and Wehr,
Middle Eocene Dicotyledonous Plants.

23
:  “so exuberantly off-the-wall?” Wehr,
Accidental Collector,
197.

24
:  Stonerose Interpretive Center was launched: Perry,
Brief History,
44.

25
:  “you must always be giving it away”: Wehr,
Eighth Lively Art,
199.

26
:  “You’ll never figure this stuff out”: Jan Hartford, conversation with the author, February 2013.

27
:  “you could watch his ears flap.” Ibid.

28
:  “students of paleobotany”: Myers, “Volcanic Arcs.”

29
:  “brought legions of other paleontologists to Republic”: Cannon, “Stories,” 31.

30
:  “I had two patron saints”: Wehr,
Accidental Collector,
72.

31
:  office at the Burke Museum: Kathleen Pigg, conversations with the author, 2013.

32
:  “It is with true pride”: Kirk Johnson, “Presentation of the Harrell L. Stimple Award of the Paleontological Society to Wesley C. Wehr.”
Journal of Paleontology
78 (July 2004): 822.

33
:  “This was vintage Wes”: Jan Hartford, conversation with the author, February 2013.

34
:  interconnected
lagerstätte
: Archibald, “Early Eocene Lagerstatten,” 158.

35
:  Nine new bulldog ant species: Archibald, “Bulldog Ants.”

36
:  fossil palm beetles: Archibald, “Fossil Palm Beetles.”

37
:  bits of two different Eocene mammals: Eberle, “Early Eocene Mammals.”

38
:  assembled a small tribute: Ellen
Ferguson, conversation with the author, June 13, 2013.

39
:  “I don’t use green.” Jan Hartford, conversation with the author, February 2013.

  
1
:  “We’d like to know his real Indian name”: Ann McCrae, conversations with the author, May 2010.

  
2
:  “Our valley was visited by an earthquake”: “Earthquake,”
Walla Walla Union,
December 28, 1872, p. 3.

  
3
:  four distinct tremors: “A Tremblor,”
Walla Walla Statesman
December 21, 1872, p. 3.

  
4
:  “a sound like someone hitting the side of a house”: Splawn,
Ka-mi-akin,
274.

  
5
:  “no damage or injury was sustained by any one”: “The First Shock,”
Daily Oregonian,
December 16, 1872, p. 3.

  
6
:  “in the Spokane country the earth opened up”:
Walla Walla Union,
January 11, 1873.

  
7
:  A 1956 Canadian report attempted to sort: Milne, “Seismic Activity.”

  
8
:  The lead investigator on the WPPSS report: Coombs,
Report.

  
9
:  “clerk John McBride said”: Ibid.

10
:  “Houses commenced to oscillate”: “Chilliwack, B. C.,”
Daily British Colonist,
Victoria B.C., December 17, 1872, p. 3.

11
:  a subsequent study: Malone,
Attenuation Patterns,
531–46.

12
:  “a bad Ta-man-na-was,” or spirit: Splawn,
Ka-mi-akin,
329.

13
:  an Interior Salish creation story: Layman,
Native River,
80.

14
:  recent geological investigations: Madole,
Ribbon Cliff,
986–1002.

15
:  ruined much of the people’s stored winter food. Hackenmiller,
Wapato Heritage,
89.

16
:  “At Chelan Station a great hole opened”: “Another Story of the Big Shake Which Dammed the Columbia,”
Wenatchee World,
June 15, 1922, p. 5.

17
:  “Imagine a rubber hose filled with water and sand”: Ralph Haugerud, conversation with the author, April 10, 2013.

18
:  “analyses of historical earthquakes”: Bakun, “December 1872 Washington State Earthquake.”

19
:  “Mr. Covington, who has a trading post”: “White Stone, Washington,”
Walla Walla Union
March 15, 1873.

20
:  “During that time my people stayed close to the priests”: Mourning Dove, 152.

21
:  “visited by God with earthquakes”: Father Urban Grassi, S. J. to P. Giorda, S. J., 10 November 1874. Grassi Papers, Foley Library, Gonzaga University.

22
:  Two of these dreamer-prophets: Ruby,
Dreamer Prophets,
61.

23
:  “The land is going to shake”: Ray, “Kolaskin,” 72.

24
:  “I was camping at Whitestone”: Ibid.

25
:  “That’s what the word means,” SiJohn said.: Cliff SiJohn, conversations with the author, July and August 2006.

26
:  “Did it shake from side to side?”:
Sadie Boyd. Transcript of audiotape by Ann McCrae, tribal elder, Spokane Tribal Preservation, Wellpinit, Washington.

27
:  “I immediately think of ground liquefaction”: Ralph Haugerud, conversation with the author, April 10, 2013.

28
:  Liquefaction on YouTube: “Liquefaction video.”

29
:  those clues will certainly keep coming: Doughton, Sandi. “Scientists may be cracking mystery of big 1872 earthquake,”
Seattle Times,
November 23, 2014.

30
:  “the earthquake that wouldn’t stay put”: Ibid.

31
:  “An old man, Kapús, was looking for horses”: Ray,
Sanpoil Folktakes,
183–84.