Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound
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Denny Emily Inez. Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound
PREFACE
PART I. – THE GREAT MARCH
CHAPTER I. CROSSING THE PLAINS
CHAPTER II. DOWN THE COLUMBIA IN ’51
CHAPTER III. THE SETTLEMENT AT ALKI
CHAPTER IV. FOUNDING OF SEATTLE AND INDIAN WAR
CHAPTER V. THE MURDER OF MCCORMICK
CHAPTER VI. KILLING COUGARS
CHAPTER VII. PIONEER CHILD LIFE
CHAPTER VIII. MARCHING EXPERIENCES OF ESTHER CHAMBERS
CHAPTER IX. AN OLYMPIA WOMAN’S TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS IN 1851
CHAPTER X. CAPT. HENRY ROEDER ON THE TRAIL
PART II. MEN, WOMEN AND ADVENTURES
CHAPTER I. SONG OF THE PIONEERS
CHAPTER II. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND SKETCHES
CHAPTER III. DAVID THOMAS DENNY
CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST WEDDING ON ELLIOTT BAY
CHAPTER V. LOUISA BOREN DENNY, THE FIRST BRIDE OF SEATTLE,
CHAPTER Va. A NATIVE DAUGHTER, BORN IN FORT DECATUR
CHAPTER Vb. LIKE A FOREST FLOWER.ANNA LOUISA DENNY
CHAPTER Vc. ONE OF THE COURAGEOUS YOUTHS
CHAPTER VI. ARTHUR A. DENNY
CHAPTER VII. HENRY VAN ASSELT OF DUWAMISH
CHAPTER VIII. THOMAS MERCER
CHAPTER IX. DR. HENRY A. SMITH, THE BRILLIANT WRITER
CHAPTER X. FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS
PART III. INDIAN LIFE AND SETTLERS’ BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER I. SAVAGE DEEDS OF SAVAGE MEN
CHAPTER II. PIONEER JOKES AND ANECDOTES
CHAPTER III. TRAILS OF COMMERCE
CHAPTER IV. BUILDING OF THE TERRITORIAL UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER V. A CHEHALIS LETTER, PENNED IN ’52
CHAPTER VI. SOME PIONEERS OF PORT TOWNSEND
CHAPTER VII. PERSONNEL OF THE PIONEER ARMY
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In the early days when a hunter, explorer or settler essayed to tread the mysterious depths of the unknown forest of Puget Sound, he took care to “blaze the way.” At brief intervals he stopped to cut with his sharp woodman’s ax a generous chip from the rough bark of fir, hemlock or cedar tree, leaving the yellow inner bark or wood exposed, thereby providing a perfect guide by which he retraced his steps to the canoe or cabin. As the initial stroke it may well be emblematical of the beginnings of things in the great Northwest.
I do not feel moved to apologize for this book; I have gathered the fragments within my reach; such or similar works are needed to set forth the life, character and movement of the early days on Puget Sound. The importance of the service of the Pioneers is as yet dimly perceived; what the Pilgrim Fathers were to New England, the Pioneers were to the Pacific Coast, to the “nations yet to be,” who, following in their footsteps, shall people the wilds with teeming cities, a “human sea,” bearing on its bosom argosies of priceless worth.
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The first meal partaken of in this cabin consisted of salt meat from a ship’s stores and potatoes. They afterward learned to make a whole meal of a medium sized salmon with potatoes, the fragments remaining not worth mention.
The furniture of their cabin was meager, a few chairs from a ship, a bedstead made of fir poles and a ship’s stove were the principle articles. One window without glass but closed by a wooden shutter with the open upper half-door served to light it in the daytime, while the glimmer of a dog-fish-oil lamp was the illumination at night.
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