John Tabor crossed the plains to California along with thousands of others during the gold rush of 1849 . He soon gave up panning for gold as a livelihood and instead shot game which he sold to the miners . He headed north where he married a young widow , Mary Taylor Hamilton , and they settled on a farm in the Willamette Valley in the Oregon Territory . He fought with General Cornelias in the Indian Wars , whose skirmishes took him all over the Inland Empire . When the land which had been off limits to settlers after the Whitman massacre opened up , John Tabor moved his family to the Palouse in the Washington Territory
Whitman massacre
Whitman massacre
John Tabor