I seems I have spent a lifetime trying to keep a promise to my father . Doing what I could with the modern resources that he in his lifetime could never have imagined nor could any of the Eel River people of the past. They had met people of importance like George Washington, William Henry Harrison and all along the way left a foot print awaiting someone to follow. The incredible story of the Eel River has been told time and time again only never realized it was their story. This is the documented story of their tribal origins, relocations and the man who led the named Charley. This is the story Charley the genealogy also available.