Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound

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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