"In October of 1880, a mystery was sparked. That year United States Indian Inspector William J. Pollock called for an investigation into contested land claims on Orchard Prairie, a newly homesteaded region near Spokane, Washington. A land survey card was filed that faintly displayed the names of an Indian, Spokane Garry and his daughter Nellie Garry, overwritten by numbers associated with the homesteads of three prominent white settlers. Chief Spokane Garry, as he is mainly known today, was a renowned figure in the settling of the Spokane region. While an ensuing investigation determined that Garry had no interest in the claim on Orchard Prairie, it consequently identified him as occupying a small 12-15-acre farm on lower Beacon Hill, where he had lived for many years. In 1883, a crime occurred on this land. A man, then identified only as "a Dutchman," jumped Garry's claim, dispossessing him of his farm. In 1886, another crime occurred. A second white man, from a soon-to-become-prominent Spokane family, committed fraud to obtain the title for Garry's land. This man then quickly sold the deed to the well-known Pacific Northwest real estate mogul and a founder of the America's Cup sailing race, F. Lewis Clark, who later mysteriously disappeared. A hearing was held on the matter in 1891 and Garry lost. He died homeless and penniless in 1892. This book continues the story of the stealing of Garry's land. Throughout the book the author explores various mysteries long associated with the case, along with the cast of characters involved, answering many longstanding questions about the life of Spokane Garry. We learn how he was dispossessed from his land (and the name of the "Dutchman") and see revealed, for the first time, the government documents long thought to have been destroyed. These documents answer many before unanswered mysteries and questions in the case of Spokane Garry." --