WITH
SKETCHES OF TRAVEL
IN
WASHINGTON TERRITORY, BRITISH COLUMBIA,
OREGON, AND CALIFORNIA
1865–1881
BY
CAROLINE C. LEIGHTON
BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM
1884
Copyright, 1888,
By LEE AND SHEPARD.
All rights reserved.
The following selections from observations and experiences during aresidence of sixteen years on the Pacific Coast, while they do not claimto describe fully that portion of the country, nor to give any accountof its great natural wealth and resources, yet indicate something of itscharacteristic features and attractions, more especially those of thePuget Sound region.
This remote corner of our territory, hitherto almost unknown to thecountry at large, is rapidly coming into prominence, and is now madeeasy of access by the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Thevast inland sea, popularly known as Puget Sound, ramifying in variousdirections, the wide-spreading and majestic forests, the ranges ofsnow-capped mountains on either side, the mild and equable climate, andthe diversifiediv resources of this favored region, excite theastonishment and admiration of all beholders. To the lovers of the grandand beautiful, unmarred as yet by any human interference, who appreciatethe freedom from conventionalities which pertain to longer-settledportions of the globe, it presents an endless field for observation andenjoyment. There is already a steady stream of emigration to this new"land of promise," and every thing seems to indicate for it a vigorousgrowth and development, and a brilliant and substantial future.
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At Sea.—Mariguana Island.—Sea-Birds.—Shipwreck.—Life onRoncador Reef.—The Rescue.—Isthmus of Panama.—Voyage toSan Francisco.—The New Baby. 1
Port Angeles.—Indian "Hunter" and his Wife.—Sailor'sFuneral.—Incantation.—Indian Graves.—Chief Yeomans.—MillSettlements.—Port Gamble Trail.—Canoe Travel.—TheMemaloost.—Tommy and his Mother.—Olympic Range.—EdizHook.—Mrs. S. and her Children.—Grand IndianWedding.—Crows and Indians. 18
Indian Chief Seattle.—Frogs and Indians.—Spring Flowersand Birds.—The Red Tamáhnous.—The Little Pendd'Oreille.—Indian Legend.—From Seattle to FortColville.—Crossing the Columbia River Bar.—The River andits Surroundings.—Its Former Magnitude.—The GrandeCoulée.—Early Explorers, Heceta, Meares, Vancouver,Grey.—Curious Burial-Place.—ChineseMiners.—Umatilla.—Walla Walla.—Sage-Brush andBunch-Grass.vi—Flowers in the Desert.—"Stick"Indians.—Klickatats.—Spokane Indian.—Snakes.—DeadChiefs.—A Kamas-Field.—Basaltic Rocks. 38...