Washington is the furthest west I will go. It was made a Territory in 1853 and a state in 1889. The first folk started coming in the 1850s as an adjunct to the gold fields in California. There was a gold rush here as well in the Walla Walla area in the early 1860s.
Very few of our family made it out here. Most of our folks up here came up from Oregon and were related to Daniel Bennett Putman.