Ferd Patterson was a sporting man who plied his trade primarily in the Pacific Northwest
in the years around the Civil War. He also cultivated a reputation as a dangerous man,
with a couple of killings to his name. Juries found him innocent; lawmen were frustrated.
One of those officers was Hugh Donahue, who got into an argument with Patterson in
Walla Walla, WA on April 14, 1866. Donahue then tra
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