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This Day

Posted on January 8, 2012January 8, 2012 by Chris Enss

1874 – Chunk Colson tried to bushwack Clay Allison after a horse race in the Indian Territory. Clay killed him. Also on this day, settlers in the Black, Walla Walla, and Yakima River Valleys erected blockhouses at the urging of Oregon Territorial Governor Issac I Stevens to protect themselves from the Yakima and other nations who resented their intrusion.

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