A typical pioneering family

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This file appears in: The Kentuck Trail

With their entire livelihood packed up onto a wagon, families like this would have been making their way down the Kentuck Trail in the 1870s.

Image courtesy of National Archives.

This file appears in: The Kentuck Trail

By Thomas Kassa
The first white settlers in the Spokane Valley arrived in the 1860s by a series of pioneer trails coming up from the Snake River Country to the south. Among the most important of these was the Kentuck Trail, which followed traditional native routes…