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When the Cow Creeks were rounded up for removal to the Reservation, many Rogue Indians were swept up as well. Along with the Cow Creek Umpqua, they also were forced to walk overland the 200 or so miles to the Grand Ronde Reservation, enduring the freezing weather and snow covered mountain peaks. Like the Cow Creek Umpqua, many Rogue Indians did not survive the trek, especially the weak, sick and elderly.
Map 11: Rogue Indian Trail of Tears.
Other Rogue Indians had to survive a different difficulty: An unfamiliar ocean voyage in small, unstable, pitching and rolling boats. To even get to their point of departure the Indians, who were ordered to surrender and to come down out of their mountain hideouts, had to survive a gauntlet of deadly ambushes. Many of them, men women and children, never made it to the coast where they were supposed to assemble.
At the end of their perilous sea voyage they disembarked, probably at the falls at Oregon City on the Willamette River, and were forced to march the rest of the way, south and west, to their Siletz Reservation.
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