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In the fall of 1893 fourteen-year-old Erskine Wood, son of the brilliant Oregon author, scholar and lawyer, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, spent two and a half months with Chief Joseph on the Nespelem River in the small valley of that name on the Colville Indian Reservation in the state of Washington. During his visit, young Wood kept a diary and the following is an excerpt from that diary on Sunday, September 24: "Went down to my traps and when I got back and we had lunch Joseph and his wife went to a funeral and cool-cool-smool-smool and some other boys and I went down to the races but before they commenced we got word from Joseph to come home and so did not see them."
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