One of the first victims of the retaliatory raids the day after the Lupton Massacre was the J.B. Waggoner cabin, situated along the Oregon-California Trail on Louse Creek, near the site shown here. Roana Waggoner and her daughter Mary were killed and the cabin and barn burned down. J.B. was at Vannoy Ferry at the time. In a letter home to Roana's brother, he described what he found after he raced home: "When I got to the bluff that overlooks my house my worst fears were confirmed. Their (sic), I saw that house and barn had been burned in the valley where my house stood was some hundred Indians whooping and hallowing. . . . They had burned up Roana and Mary with the house and nothing remained of them--smoldering ashes . . . I could give you more till I fill the whole sheets but my soul sickens to think of it."