switzler

Updated: May 18, 2025

At Portland we all united, and moving across the point between the Willamette and Columbia rivers, encamped opposite Fort Vancouver, on the south bank of the latter stream, on the farm of an old settler named Switzler, who had located there many years before.

- Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals

Of course their owner made a row about it; but when Old Red daily settled for his fun by paying liberally with gold-dust from some small bottles of the precious metal in his possession, Switzler readily became contented, and I think even encouraged the exhibitions of skill.

Philip Henry Sheridan - The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Volume I., Part 1