Leschi
Named in 4 stories. Back to all names
- Jul 17, 1886The Deadly Ambush at Council PrairieAn eye-witness account of a harrowing escape during the Puget Sound Indian War, describing a fatal skirmish, a desperate trek through winter swamps, and the loss of Colonel A. Benton Moses.Buckley, WA
- Mar 29, 1892The Murder in Governor Stevens’s Outer OfficeA former Hudson’s Bay man recalls the Puget Sound War: decapitated heads carried to Olympia, Chief Leschi hanged near Fort Steilacoom, and his brother Quiemal killed while waiting to surrender.Olympia, WA
- Mar 16, 1895A Medicine Man Buried on the Green River, Kin to the Chief They HangedJames Bootsoish was killed by a father whose children he could not cure. A hundred mourners, a Catholic burial on the riverbank — and a family name that reaches back to Leschi and the war of 1855.Tacoma, WA
- Jul 4, 1895A Thousand Gather to Move Leschi's Bones HomeOn the Nisqually reservation, chiefs and their families rebury the war leaders Leschi and Quiemuth — and Leschi's nephew tells the crowd who really started the war.Olympia, WA