in Pacific County. In 1860, a farmhand working on Bullard’s farm quit his job and demanded to be paid off in cash. Bullard did not want to pay in cash and an argument ensued. The employee drew his knife just as Bullard’s brother, Seth, come upon the scene. Seth attempted to disarm the man and was stabbed to death in the struggle. After about a decade of farming in Pacific County, Bullard returned to the east coast to visit friends and family. He returned by steamship with an overland leg across the Isthmus of Panama, stopping in San Francisco before finally arriving in Astoria, Oregon in December 1862. Bullard kept a daily journal of his east to west return trip. Lakeview founder In 1869, Bullard moved to the Goose Lake Valley in south central Oregon. He was one of the first settlers to make his home in the valley. His first land claim was patented in January 1871. It included located along what is now Bullard Creek near the mouth of Bullard Canyon at the north end of the valley. Bullard later acquired a second land grant. His farm was mostly meadow land covered with tall native grass. Because of the lush environment, a wide range of wildlife was common on his land. Bullard enclosed his property with a crude fence and an irrigation ditch. He built a simple three-room log house on the property. The cabin had a living room for cooking and sleeping. The second room was used as a storage area and wood shed. The third area was a built-in livestock barn. In 1874, the Oregon legislature created Lake County (which at that time, included today’s Lake County and neighboring Klamath County) from what had previously been eastern Jackson County. Linkville (now Klamath Falls, Oregon) was designated as the temporary county seat pending an election scheduled for 5 June 1876. Settlers in the Goose Lake Valley on the eastern side of the new county outnumbered those on the west side near Upper Klamath Lake; however, there was no town on the east side of the county while the west side had Linkville. To remedy this, Bullard offered to donate to establish a new town at the north end of the Goose Lake Valley. In the June election, most of the residents from the Klamath Lake area voted to keep the county seat at Linkville while east side