The Skamania County Pioneer, Stevenson, WA., September 19, 1907, section 2, page 21

“UNCLE AMOS” UNDERWOOD GOES EAST

     After being away from his old home 55 years, Amos Underwood left Sunday for Iowa.
     “Uuncle Amos,” as he is familiarly known, settled at the mouth of the White Salmon river when it was the favorite camping place for many Indians and when there were very few white people in this county.  He afterward married the daughter of an Indian chief, by whom he had several children, who still reside in the little town that bears his name.
     Last year his wife, a very aged and respected woman, died and it was feared for a time that Uncle Amos, who is in poor health, would also pass away, but after a visit to Southern California, he regained his former robust vigor for a man of his years and decided to visit his relatives, whom he had not seen for more than half a century.  An intrepid Indian fighter and pioneer riverman, this hardy old man is more familiar with the early history of this part of Washington than anyone living, being here at the time of the Indian massacres at the Cascades near Stevenson and also gaining much knowledge from being with the Indians, as they sat in their tepees and told war stories, and also about the first white people coming to this country.  Mrs. Underwood, who died last summer, remembered of hearing her relatives speak of the natural bridge across the Columbia, (known as the Bridge of the Gods) at what is now the Cascades.  This is an old legend and we believe, from the evidences shown in the river at this point, it is true.  There were no towns along the Columbia between The Dalles and Portland, except Vancouver, when Uncle Amos came here and Eastern Washington was an unclaimed wilderness.  His journey to the far west was made across the plains in 1857-58.  For many years he led a roving life, hunting, fishing and later operating a ferry at Underwood, where he owns considerable property and has retired from active work.
     In Kansas he will visit several of his comrades who accompanied him across the plains and later returned to that state.  Uncle Amos is loud in his preference for Washington and stated on leaving for the east that when the snow commenced to fly in Iowa, Washington for him.