Hull, Lindley M., compiler and editor.  "A History of Central Washington,
Including the Famous Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan and the Columbia Valleys."
Spokane: Press of Shaw & Borden Co., 1929.  p. 429.

WILLIAM BRANNIGAN

     In 1889, Mr. Brannigan who came from Eastern Canada, with his brother Dan,
moved into the Muddy Creek country, the former taking a claim. They left their
sled at Mad River, as that country was roadless for many years. They carried
their stove in by hand, as they did any article that could not be packed on the
back of a horse. Mr. Brannigan, or Billy, as his friends called him, began to
raise stock of all kinds. His land was well adapted to the growth of alfalfa,
and he raised that forage plant in such quantities as to enable him to take
stock to board.  Late in the winter of 1889-90 Mr. Brannigan undertook to haul
freight from Ellensburg to Orondo for W. S. Gehr. The price for hauling was
eighty dollars per ton, the distance about 75 miles. The snow was so deep that
Billy had to make a sled to move the goods across the mountain. He felt that he
more than earned his money, and did not get his wagon away from the Collocken
for many weeks. Of late years Billy is about the only man who follows the stock
business.  Dan Brannigan died several years ago. Another brother now spends some
of his time with Billy.
     
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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in June 2009 by Diana Smith.
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