MILLING WITH THE NIGHT HERD 



was said, could make a nickel look like a tidal wave 

 and who ran a rollicky place at that old stage-stop a 

 few miles west of the present city. This was after- 

 wards known as Swift's Crossing — because Swift the 

 carpenter lived there. Things and places hereabouts 

 or in any frontier country the world over go by the 

 names of people who wore or made the things or lived 

 in the places or because of certain happenings, condi- 

 tions, people or things connected with them, hence — 

 "Stetson" hat, chapps, Camas Prairie, Grizzly, Crooked 

 River, Wagon Tire, Happy Canyon, Half Way, 

 Swift's Crossing, and so on. 



It was at Swift's Crossing that they changed horses 

 between Cayuse and Umatilla — you can see the spot 

 now down river a bit where the Umatilla makes a turn 

 and the old road takes steep up grade — just below the 

 new State Hospital. Later Swift's Crossing moved 

 up to Pendleton, at least its inhabitants did; today 

 there's not a vestige of a habitation left on its old site. 

 So then the old Pendleton Hostelry, the first hotel in 

 Pendleton, became the stage-stop and Dave Horn 

 and other stage drivers changed horses here, where 

 before they had only pulled up for passengers and mail. 



The center of Pendleton, which took its name — and 

 thereby hangs a story — from Senator Pendleton of 

 Ohio, was marked, the old-timers will tell you, when 

 Moses Goodwin, whose wife Aura was known as the 

 mother of Pendleton, drove in a stake on his home- 

 stead, when first surveyed, at the corner of the block 

 where the First National Bank now stands, and gave 

 this site to the county. 



"Here," he said, "is where the courthouse is to be" 

 and there it stood for many years, and this corner is 

 now the center of the city. The reason the city is not 



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