limits the name Pilot Butte. Menafee is supported by Thomas Clark's own letter in which he reports meeting his brother James on the 1851 trip about thirty miles east of The Dalles on the Columbia River. Grace Clark married Thomas' partner, Jackson Vandevert, and settled in the Willamette Valley. Grace dedicated substantial efforts to the welfare of the local Native Americans. She died in 1875. The couple's first of seven children, William Plutarch Vandevert, born in 1854 in Cottage Grove, Oregon, established Vandevert Ranch south of Bend in 1892. Thomas, Charles, and James Clark moved to Petrolia, California in 1857 and raised cattle. All three brothers fought in the Rogue River Indian Wars of 1855-1856 in Southern Oregon. James Clark returned to Oregon where his ranch (afterwards called "Burnt Ranch") was burned by Indian marauders and where James, with Howard Maupin, tracked down Chief Paulina and killed him in 1867. Thomas died in Oxnard, California, 11 November 1903 at the age of 88 years. Notes Sources Brogan, Phil, East of the Cascades, Binford & Mort Publishing, October 1976, Burgderfer, Don, The Clark Massacre Party of 1851, article in Little Known Tales of Oregon History Volume III, Sun Publishing, Bend, Oregon 2001, pp. 81–84 Clark, Linwood LeBoeuf, Clark Family History, monograph written in 1980. Link to Clark, Thomas, Letter to Mr. T.A. Wood, Port Hueneme, California, August 7, 1902. Link to Clark, TK, Regional History of Petrolia and the Mattole Valley, Miller Press, Eugene, Oregon 1983, pp. 5–14 Evans, Jane Coultas (member of the Clark party), diary written in 1904 and quoted at length in The Sunday Oregonian, February 14, 1965 Jones, Randall S., Bend Resident Relates Stirring Story of Indian Raid on Pioneer Travelers, Oregon Historical Society SB#272 p. 61 McNellis, Grace Vandevert (great-granddaughter of Grace Clark), interviewed on October 26, 2008 Ontko, Gale, Thunder Over the Ochoco: The Gathering Storm, Volume I, Seven Locks Press, Santa Ana, CA, pp. 5–17 Power, Evada R., Old Days Revived in Stories Told by William Vandevert, of La Pine, The Redmond Spokesman, August 20, 1936 Menefee, Leah Collins and Tiller, Lowell, Cutoff Fever, Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, Portland Oregon, December 1976, March, June, September, and December 1977. (See especially September 1977, pp. 215–219) Newsom, David, Letter to the Illinois Journal written December 15, 1851 in Salem, Oregon. Quoted in TK Clark (above) Bill Vandevert, Bear Hunter, Bend Oregon, in The Oregon Journal November