WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE: Seasoned criminal Orvy Whipstitch Horvath has escaped Walla Walla’s territorial prison—known to keep company with lowlifes and horse-thieves. Gather up a search team and help the law track him down! If you succeed, you will be rewarded. Horvath took an escape route through Fort Walla Walla and left behind careless clues.

This two-day family-friendly event is an interactive puzzle through the Museum. The wanted poster might lead you to a newspaper clipping detailing Orvy’s escape, which might lead you to the horse Orvy stole, and onward. You’ll have to bring your wits and your observation skills to trace Orvy’s trail through the grounds—and ultimately, discover the criminal in his hiding spot!

This is a weekend-long event, so join us anytime on anytime from 10am-5pm on both Saturday and Sunday.

This event is made possible by support from Columbia REA.

Lettice Millican Clark Reynolds, pioneer settler and community leader

Living History performance on Sunday July 16, at 2pm in the Pioneer Village.

Lettice Millican was born in 1830, the oldest of 12 children. In 1843 her family headed west with a wagon train carrying 1,000 settlers. After her family settled in the Willamette Valley, she married Ransom Clark, who in 1855 obtained a 640-acre donation claim along Yellowhawk Creek.

Lettice and her husband came to Walla Walla to prove up their claim in 1855 but were driven out by the Indian War of that year.  Ransom Clark died in Portland in 1859, and Lettice returned to Walla Walla the same year to complete their cabin, which is now located in the Museum’s Pioneer Village.  She was the first white woman to reside in the Walla Walla Valley after the Whitman tragedy, later marrying mill owner Almos Reynolds and becoming a public benefactor who made substantial gifts to Whitman College.

Lettice Millican Clark Reynolds is portrayed by Pam Myers.