GLENWOOD WASHINGTON
INFO & WEATHER
Glenwood, WA is located
in the northwestern portion of
Klickitat County. It borders Yakima County.
The community is in the Glenwood Valley, formerly known as Camas Prairie. It is part of the Yakama Reservation.
We have a splendid view of Mt Adams.
Even though the mountain appears to be in our back yard,
it is actually in Yakima and Skamania counties.
Lat: 46.0095°N Lon: 121.2715°W
The elevation of my weather station is 1854 ft.
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If you have a question, you can contact Laurene Eldred at glenwoodweather@gmail.com
This site is slowly under re-construction
and I mean slowly.
Title: Chief Spencer, age 88, 1900
Photographer: Rutter, Thomas H., 1837-1925
Date 1900
CHIEF SPENCER
Kamiakin refused to return to the Yakama Reservation to take his position of Chief, so Chief Spencer, was appointed.
The below clipping is from the 1907 The Indian's Friend, Volumes 20-21
This involved the killing of Spencer"s Family
From History Link.org
Native Americans attack Americans at the Cascades of the Columbia on March 26, 1856.
Spencer's family was killed right after the Cascade Massacre at the Cascades.
a footnote from the book "History of Oregon", by Charles Henry Carey. Page 613 Google Books
FROM THE BOOK "INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST: A HISTORY" BY ROBERT H. RUBY, JOHN ARTHUR BROWN.
PAGE 230
CHIEF SPENCER'S GREAT GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER MARLENE SPENCER SILMA