Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound. Emily Inez Denny
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Emily Inez Denny
Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066236496
Table of Contents
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 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 VII. HENRY VAN ASSELT OF DUWAMISH.
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.
PREFACE
BLAZING THE WAY.
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.
It does contain some items and incidents not generally known or heretofore published. I hope others may be provoked to record their pioneer experiences.
I have had exceptional opportunities in listening to the thrice-told tales of parents and friends who had crossed the plains, as well as personal recollections of experiences and observation during a residence of over fifty years in the Northwest, acknowledging also the good fortune of having been one of the first white children born on Puget Sound.
Every old pioneer has a store