H.J. Quigley's homestead
Back around 1914, Horace J. Quigley and his family came from Watsonville, California, by team and wagon, a located a homestead along the upper part of Dry Creek. They lived there a number of years until they sold the homestead in the early 1920s and moved to Ashland, Oregon, to spend their declining years.
Since Quigley sold the homestead several people have lived there, including Fred Quigley and Fred Davis.
I used to see the Quigleys quite often, and I always enjoyed H.J. Quigley telling about his buckaroo days in Eastern Oregon when he was a young man. He showed me the old Remington cap and ball six-shooter he once carried on the range land many years before.
The war between the sheep men and the cattle men was in full bloom in that part of Oregon in those days, and the life of a bucka roo there must have been a hard one. A man had to have youth and vigor to do the job in those buckaroo days, but there was some fun and excitement with them for the young people, and many of them liked the rough life.
January 8, 1954
George Wright descriptions