Chapter XL: The Fruitless Peace Council

Governor Stevens, assured of support by Colonel Wright,
revokes call for additional volunteers--Council with
Klikitats--Refuses to receive Indian murderers on
reservation--Pushes forward to Walla Walla--Indians take
pack-train--Steptoe arrives with four companies--Indians
assemble--Manifest hostility--Steptoe moves off--Volunteers
start for Dalles--Steptoe refuses guard--Governor Stevens
recalls volunteers--Hostile and threatening Indians--Steptoe
refusing support, Governor Stevens moves to his camp--
Disaffected chiefs demand that treaties be abrogated,
whites leave the country--Governor Stevens demands
submission--Terminates council--Starts for Dalles--Attacked
on march--The fight--Moves back to Steptoe's camp--Indians
attack it--Repulsed--Blockhouse built--One company
left--Both commands march to Dalles--Steptoe's change of
views--Demand on Colonel Wright to deliver up Sound
murderers, who gives order--Cleverly evaded--Colonel Wright
marches to Walla Walla--Counsels with hostile chiefs--Yields
to their demands--Whites ordered out of the country--Shameful
betrayal of duty--Governor Stevens's indignant letters to the
War and Indian departments--Pernicious influence of
missionaries and Hudson Bay Company--Governor Stevens's views
finally adopted--Steptoe's defeat--Wright defeats
hostiles--Summary executions--Fate of Ow-hi and Qualchen 206

CHAPTER XLI

DISBANDING THE VOLUNTEERS

Entire force disbanded--Their character, discipline--Public
property sold--So many captured animals that more were sold
than purchased--Transportation cost nothing--Anecdote of
Captain Henness--Thirty-five forts built by volunteers,
twenty-three by settlers, seven by regulars--Colonel Casey
refuses demand for surrender of murderers--Governor Stevens
insists--Sharply rebukes Colonel Casey's slurs--Leschi
surrendered for trial--Is finally hanged--Qui-e-muth killed 232