William Three Mountains

ID: 4979 ~ Source: Washington State University Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal

This file appears in: Bill Jackson: The Story of a Mixed-Race Indian in Early Spokane

Miss and Captain Webster posing with a group of Native American chiefs and policemen of the Spokanes. Sitting to CPT Webster's left is Chief William Three Mountains; on Webster's right is Chief Oliver Lot. Three Mountains and Lot both served as judges.

This file appears in: Bill Jackson: The Story of a Mixed-Race Indian in Early Spokane

Bill Jackson: The Story of a Mixed-Race Indian in Early Spokane

By Scott Ward

Sometime around 1860, Billy Jackson was born on the southeastern portion of Moran Prairie (near 57th Street on the modern-day South Hill). His father was a French-Canadian who had come west in the fur trade, his mother was Indian. The father…