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Evergreen Land A Portrait Of The State Of Washington
Author: Nard Jones

EVERGREEN LAND A PORTRAIT OF THE State of Washington By NARD JONES NEW YORK T oddj Mead Company 1947 COPYRIGHT, 1947, BY ANNE AND NARD JONES ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NO PART OF THIS BOOK DVIAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM - WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE VAIL-BALLOT PRESS, INC BINGHAMTON, ... more »N. Y. FOR BLAIR ANTHONY AND ANNA MARIE, TWO NATIVES OF THE EVERGREEN LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT BOOKS and publications History of Washington, Clinton A. Snow den The Columbia River, W. D. Lyman The Canoe and the Saddle, Theodore Winthrop Washington State Guide, WPA and the Washington Historical Society Early Day Mansions of Seattle, Margaret Pitcaim Strachan, Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle, Sophie Frye Bass First Person Singular, Henry Broderick The Story of Seattles Early Theatres, Howard Grant The History of Seattle Stock Companies, Mary Katherine Porter A History of Variety-Vaudeville in Seattle, Eugene Clinton Elliott Patterns of Culture, Dr. Ruth Benedict Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, Franz Boas in Report of the National Museum for 1895 Original Manuscript, Ranald McDonald History of Seattle, Daniel Bagley Seattle and Environs, C. S. Hanford Ever green Commonwealth, Stewart Holbrook Sunday Magazine of the Seattle Daily Times The Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Seattle Star The Argus Miller Freeman Publications of Seattle, Spokane Spokesman-Review The New York Herald-Tribune. Several pas sages from the authors own novels of the Pacific Northwest have been adapted to factual use. PEOPLE and institutions Washington Historical Society Eastern Washington Historical Society Library of Whitman College Li brary of the University of Washington The Seattle Public Library The New York Public Library The Seattle Historical Society Dr. Russell Blankenship J. Gordon Gose Gail M. Williams Lucille McDonald Kathrene and Robert Pinkerton Jim Marshall Gill Robb Wilson Sylvia Froula end-paper photographs Grand Coulee Dam, Ray Atkeson for Standard of California Mount Rainier, Seattle Times. CONTENTS Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen STATEMENT OF FAITH . . 1 WESTWARD THEY TRAVEL . 3 BY SEA 9 AND BY LAND 15 LADIES JOIN HANDS ... 24 TERRITORY AND TROUBLES . 33 STATEHOOD 43 SOMETHING DOING EVERY MINUTE 47 BIGGEST THING MAN EVER BUILT 57 STATE SECRET 71 LO, THE POOR INDIAN ... 80 NORTH COUNTRY . . , . 86 THE MERCER GIRLS ... 94 REMINDS ME OF A STORY . 103 Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-one Chapter Twenty-two Chapter Twenty-three Chapter Twenty-four Chapter Twenty-five Chapter Twenty-six Chapter Twenty-seven Chapter Twenty-eight Chapter Twenty-nine Chapter Thirty CONTENTS NATURES PLAYGROUND . . 110 THE DARKENED DAYS ... 120 FIRST MAN TO JAPAN ... 137 ON HIGHER PLANE .... 141 SEEING RED 155 SERVANTS OF THE PEOPLE . 161 PIONEER PICNIC 171 THE TOWNS AND THE CITIES 183 MOSQUITO FLEET .... 208 TRIUMPH OF PEA HOLLER . 218 FISH BUSINESS 224 MAN FROM WASHINGTON . 231 THE QUIET MAIN .... 239 TIM-BER 246 THE SEATTLE SPIRIT ... 256 NO PLACE LIKE HOME . . 263 Chapter One STATEMENT OF FAITH I LIKE the State of Washington. I was born there, and I believe that it is the greatest State in the Union or certainly that it will be. This is by way of friendly warning that in the pages which follow I shall not regard my State with lofty amusement or bitter scorn. But neither shall I picture it as rife with quaint and assorted folkways, or merely an awe inspiring setting of scenery against which pioneer characters play out familiar frontier incidents. That has been done often, and well, and now the time has come to regard Washington as a common wealth concerned with today and tomorrow. Of course, I have put in some pioneers and some Indians, and some history...

ISBN-13: 9781406704174
ISBN-10: 1406704172
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 300
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Publisher: Mackaye Press
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