Col. Wright addressing the native tribes

ID: 1182
This file appears in: Who Was George Wright?

In 1858, Col. George Wright had just defeated the allied native tribes at the battles of Four Lakes and Spokane Plains. He laid out a harsh set of demands. This is a dramatic reading of those demands.

Text from NW Durham, "History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County" (Spokane: SJ Clarke Publishing Co., 1912)


Preformed by Lee Nilsson

This file appears in: Who Was George Wright?

By Lee Nilsson
The Fort George Wright monument tells the story of the fort from its creation in 1895 to its acquisition by the Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute in 1990. The Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute has started many initiatives to maintain the historic…