Me & My Piano

from page 8 west – a third of those came to Oregon and Washington. Towns were springing up all over the place as the flood of people arrived. In 1844, Skamokawa and Oregon City were founded. St. Helens was founded in 1845 (originally called Plymouth), and Cathlamet was started in 1846. Peter Crawford filed a land claim in 1847 for what would become Kelso (it was not platted until 1884). The Oregon Territory was created in 1848. Monticello (located near the mouth of the Cowlitz River) was established in 1850, the same year California became a state. Rainier (originally called Eminence) was founded in 1851 and Woodland was settled a year later. The Washington Territory was created in 1853 and Oregon became a state in 1859. Only three members of the Expedition were still alive when Abraham Lincoln was elected our sixteenth president in 1860. The Civil War began the following year and ended in 1865 when Robert E. Lee surrendered. A week later, Lincoln was assassinated; Alexander Willard had died a month earlier at age 86. Sacajawea’s son, Pomp, died in 1866 and is buried in southeastern Oregon (his story will be told next month).

And then there was just one

In 1868, Colonel George Custer made his last stand against the Cheyenne Indians. In 1869, the transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory Point, Utah; by then, twenty states had been admitted to the union since the Corps returned to St. Louis in 1806. Patrick Gass died in 1870 at age 99, the same year Kalama was established. While he was the last member of the Expedition to die, he had married a 20-year old woman in 1831 (when he was 60) and had fathered seven children – some lived into the twentieth century. I’ve always wondered why nobody in his family wrote a book about their father’s stories. Over the next five months, we will wrap up this series of columns by examining what happened to Sacajawea and her son Pomp. We will look at why nobody did anything with the maps that William Clark had worked so hard to create during the trip. And, we will learn more about what Captains Lewis and Clark did after they returned to St. Louis in 1806. You might think the journey is over, but is it, really? •••

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not a piano, but if u imagine hard enough the guitar can just turn into a piano

i have carted my guitar around much of the country, got into a scuffle in Cleveland.

in a dark, undercarriage of some discounted airline.

finally arrived at my home, dropped off by some very typical family van.

the sad tweed case w a now loping, newly damaged corner (if i was the driver i’d scurry hurry off too)

i open the case up for the gift inside.

neck check, GOOD. strings attached, GOOD. all six? four, five AND six...fist to the sky at the airline gods. but she’s aight. she my chinese made fender telecaster. some shade of woody black i like to say is indescribable and oh so mysterious.

strum my ”go-to chord”... oh she sounds so nice. tuned up, electric pickups quiet not even a hum.

coffee’s ready on the stove, don’t know the time. i love my guitar. you can never hold a name. music brings a feeling, a world i live in.

Matty Duka Seaside, Oregon

Editor’s note: “Aight” is a contraction of “all right.”

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