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2. “Spokane Tribe History,” http://www.wellpinit.wednet.edu/spokan/history/timeline.php [November 3, 2001].
3. Ida Estby, daughter of Helga and Ole, Oral History at Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Wash., 1973.
4. Darillyn Bahr, “Coast to Coast,” School Research Report, Wilbur, Wash., 1977.
5. J. Fahey, The Inland Empire: Unfolding years, 1879–1929 (University of Washington Press, 1986).
6. J. Rettman, “Prostitution in Spokane, WA: 1889–1908,” (master’s thesis, Eastern Washington University, 1994).
7. Spokane County Court Records, Lawsuits: 1890–1920.
8. “Lawsuit announcement,” Spokesman-Review, September 23, 1888.
9. A. Trodd, Domestic Crime in the Victorian Novel (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989).
10. Spokane County Court Records, Lawsuits, 1916. Helga was involved in a second lawsuit in 1916 that required her to elaborate on her first lawsuit against the city after a taxicab accident left her with permanent injuries. This provides rich information on the accident on Riverside Avenue during 1888.
11. Ibid.
12. Spokane County Court Records, 1889; Arlene Coulson “Research notes on Helga Estby’s Family,” Whitworth College History Project, 1986.
13. “The Jury in the Estley [sic] Suit,” Spokane Falls Review, February 21, 1889, p. 4.
14. Spokane County Court Records, Mortgage Book, 1889.
15. Spokane County Court Records, Lawsuits, 1890.
16. Ida Estby, oral history interview, 1973.
17. Ibid.
18. Spokane County Court Records, Lawsuits, 1916.
5 | FRONTIER VICES AND THE MOVE TO MICA CREEK
1. C. Schwantes, “Spokane and the Wageworkers’ Frontier: A Labor History to World War i,” in Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology, ed. D. Stratton (Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 1991), 125.
2. E.T. Becher, Spokane Corona: Eras and Empires (Spokane, Wash.: Self-Published, 1974).
3. J. Rettman, “Prostitution in Spokane, Washington: 1889–1908” (master’s thesis, Eastern Washington University, 1994).
4. Ibid.
5. “Call Grand Jury,” Spokesman-Review, December 11, 1903, p. 1.
6. Ida Estby, daughter of Helga and Ole, Oral History at Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, Wash., 1973.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Spokane County Court Records, Mortgage Book, 1892.
10. Donna Miscovitch, notes from an interview with ninety-six year-old Amy Fundin who grew up on the Estby land after they lost the farm. Atwater, Calif., 1995.
11. Ida Estby, oral history interview.
12. Women’s Club Authors, Down Memory Lane (Mica Community Publication, 1979).
13. “Walked Here from Spokane,” Sun, May 2, 1897, p. 1.
14. Ida Estby, oral history interview.
6 | FINANCIAL FEARS AND A FAMILY DEATH
1. Letters from the Thelma Portch Collection. The letters from her children, some dated in 1893 and sent to Wisconsin, were treasured by Helga all of her life. Some are undated and without a postal address and could have been sent during the time when she walked for four hundred miles prior to 1896. No records in Wisconsin and Michigan have been found confirming her parent’s residence or death during these dates. Helga may have been visiting her family or a previous friend from Minnesota.
2. D. Stratton, ed., Spokane and the Inland Empire (Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press, 1991), 131.
3. Ibid.
4. Arlene Coulson, “Research notes on Helga Estby’s family,” Whitworth College History Project, 1986. The Spokane County Land Department records of mortgages and deeds include a series of Deeds and Loans that reflect this cycle of using loans to repay old debts; these are all included in “Mortgage Records,” a series of books. On January 29, 1889, the Estbys borrowed $60 from H.L. Richardson on their Spokane Falls Saunders Addition 21, 22, 23 (Book T, p. 270) that was satisfied on October 28, 1889 (Book W, p. 467). On the day this was satisfied, Ole borrowed $250 from Adolph Munter against the same property; this was satisfied on June 14, 1890 (Book 13, p. 302). On the day this was satisfied, he borrowed $600 from H.L. Richardson against the same property; this was satisfied