1875 EXECUTIVE ORDER REVOKING WALLOWA VALLEY
RESERVE
"Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,"
pp. 439-811. In U.S. House. 45th Congress, 3d Session. Report of the Secretary of the
Interior, 1878 (H.Ex.Doc.1, Pt. 5, Vol. 1). Washington: Government Printing Office,
1879. (Serial Set 1850). From: Executive Orders, Establishing,
Enlarging or Reducing Indian Reservations, Also Restoring Certain Indian Reservations to
the Public Domain, From May 14, 1855, to October 29, 1878, pp. 765-766.
Wallowa Valley Reserve.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 10, 1975.
It is hereby ordered that the order dated June 16, 1873, withdrawing from sale and settlement and setting apart the Wallowa Valley, in Oregon, described as follows: Commencing at the right bank of the mouth of Grande Ronde River; thence up Snake River to a point due east of the southeast corner of township No. 1 south of the base line of the surveys in Oregon, in range No. 46 east of the Willamette meridian; thence from said point due west to the west Fork of the Wallowa River; thence down said West Fork to its junction with the Wallowa River; thence down said river to its confluence with the Grande Ronde River; thence down the last-named river to the place of beginning, as an Indian reservation, is hereby revoked and annulled, and the said described tract of country is hereby restored to the public domain.
U. S. GRANT.