Oliver Shead
Named in 2 stories. Back to all names
- Jun 10, 1859The Volunteers Were Paid Twice—Sometimes Thrice—For the Same WarA federal commission auditing the 1855–56 Indian War muster rolls finds men drawing captain's, wagon-master's and private's pay all at once—including a Nisqually ferry keeper who billed the government for the same ten ferrymen he never properly mustered in.Steilacoom, WA
- Mar 22, 1879The Contract Prison of the Skookum ChuckA look inside the privatized territorial penitentiary of 1879, where convict labor was auctioned off to pay for a sheriff's enterprise.Bucoda, WA