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Early Settler Keeps Vow to Live in Peace with Indians

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Thomas Van Pelt left Illinois in 1851 for the Southern Oregon coast. One of his traveling companions was A. F. Miller. They filed donation land claims, but lived divergent lives, Miller occupying Native American land at the mouth of the Winchuck River,

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Shirley Nelson