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A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors
Some other writers who are contributors to periodical literature
Lines worth knowing by heart
In paper thirty-five cents
In cloth fifty cents
Printed for the Compiler
Copyright 1916 by SUSAN WHITCOMB HASSELL Everett, Wash.
Printers Lowman & Hanford Co. Seattle
CONTENTS
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A Hundred and Sixty Books
History 6-10
Travel and Description 10-13
Scientific and Technical 14-16
Fiction 16-20
Juvenile 20-21
Poetry 22-23
Unclassified Prose 23-26
Other Writers 27-28
Lines Worth Knowing by Heart 29-36
Index to Writers 37-40
FOREWORD
Our state literature is strongest in local lines. First in early history and narration of personal adventure. Fortunately our most important histories are written by men who have long been residents. Meany, Lyman, Durham, Snowden and Bagley have themselves been a part of the story and have learned much at first-hand. Their pages have a flavor of personal interest which some histories lack.
The adventures of today become the history of tomorrow. Even the most commonplace narration of experience in a new country has its value. Those original documents, whether diary, letters, memoir or autobiography are the delight of one who has the true historian's instinct.
The mythology of the tribes that eighty years ago held possession of this territory is native romance, a literary asset which has been well developed. Lyman has collected the myths and legends of the peoples on the Columbia. Williams tells those that cluster about Mount Rainier. Meany, Curtis and other historians have enlivened their text by these romances and Miss Judson has made the field her own.
A second treasure supply of the state lies in its natural wonders and beauties. What other state can boast of charms so varied? No other country has scenery surpassing in grandeur our mountains and forests, or more beautiful than our inland sea with its emerald shores and islands.
Williams is not alone in exploiting this rich treasure. A score of others have found in it the source of mood for their songs or the frame for a story or romance.
In philosophic essay and the higher forms of pure belles-lettres the proportion of writings is not so large as in the old literary centers. Thought and time are still requisitioned for the founding of institutions. Few are the leisure-class people who pursue writing as an art. Yet one who cares to investigate will discover that no other state while so young has shown a richer output of literature, in content, in scope or in character.
Perhaps this first published list will add to the number of those who do care to investigate. Perhaps too it will result in a wider acquaintance among those who are following the same undying art. Some day Washington writers will band together for mutual benefit.
HISTORY
=1. Blazing the Way.= (1909.) Emily Inez Denny. Pioneer home-life pictured by the daughter of the early settler who wrote No. 21.
=2. Columbia River, Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce.= (1909.) William Dennison Lyman. Fully descriptive and reciting personal adventures. Professor Lyman, long-time teacher of history in Whitman College, has lived his whole life in the country he describes. The book contains many Indian legends. Eighty illustrations.
=3. The Conquerors.= (1907.) Rev. A. Atwood. Dedicated to Jason Lee and the pioneer missionaries who laid the foundations of American institutions in old Oregon. Much about Lee whose missionary labors antedated Marcus Whitman's by two years. To some extent it touches the so-called Whitman controversy, a discussion due in part to the fact that the admirers of Whitman claimed too much for a patriot whose services needed no exaggeration. It has the endorsement of the Washington State Historical Society.
=4. Glimpses in Pioneer Life on Puget Sound.= (1903.) Same author. A history of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the Pacific Coast.
=5. David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard.= (1906.) T. W. Prosch. Biography of two of the immigrants of 1850. Mrs. Maynard is honored in Seattle as the founder of a free reading room which grew into the Young Men's Christian Association of the city.
=6. Gettysburg.= (1911.) Captain R. K. Beecham. An account of the great battle. Acknowledged to be most complete and accurate as to facts and it is written with the fire of a patriot and a poet. The veteran returns to visit the battle-field where as a youth half a century before he fought for the flag. Through his eyes and memories the reader sees events.
=7. History of Puget Sound Country.= (1903.) Colonel William Farland Prosser. The late president of the State Historical Society compiled this work in two large volumes, a painstaking and valuable reference work.
=8. History of Seattle.= (1916.) Clarence B. Bagley. Three large volumes. Very comprehensive. The third volume is wholly biographical.
=9. In the Beginning.= (1905.) Same author. A sketch of events in Western Washington while it was still a part of old Oregon. Published separately, also in the 1909 edition of Meeker's "Pioneer Reminiscences."
=10. History of the State of Washington.= (1909.) Edmond S. Meany. The most accurate and complete history of the state. In some measure it covers the whole Pacific slope. It is intended for school use but will interest any one who likes to study or read history. The story is divided into discovery, exploration, occupation, territorial days and statehood, each treated clearly and fully. The author, professor of history in the University of Washington, is a hero-worshipper and extolls the daring of the adventurer and the patience and courage of the pioneer.
=11. Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound.= (1907.) Same author. Largely the journal of the discoverer with extensive notes, many portraits and biographies of the men whose names were given to geographic features of the Northwest. A most important piece of historic research. A fitting supplement to this work is
=12. A New Vancouver Journal on the Discovery of Puget Sound, by a Member of the Chatham's Crew.= (1915.) Edited by Professor Meany.
=13. United States History for Schools.= (1912.) Shows the development of America as part of world history. This has met with general approval as a text-book.
=14. History of Washington, The Rise and Progress of an American State.= (1909-1911.) Clinton A. Snowden. Four elegant volumes in half-leather and rich in illustrations. Two later volumes issued as supplements are wholly biographical.
=15. The Iron Way.= (1907.) Sarah Pratt Carr. The story of the building of the Central Pacific, the first transcontinental railway.
=16. The Cost of Empire.= Same author. The record of the Whitman massacre. It was made the basis of the opera "Narcissa" of which Mrs Carr's daughter, Mary Carr Moore, wrote the music.
=17. Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens.= (1900.) Hazard Stevens. The two volumes contain much information about the early Indian wars, councils and treaties. They show the simplicity of official form during the life of the first Governor of the Territory.
=18. Marcus Whitman, Pathfinder and Patriot.= (1909.) Rev. Myron Eells. The author is son of Rev. Cushing Eells, founder of Whitman College and personal friend and co-worker with Whitman.
=19. Fathers Eells, or the Results of 55 Years of Missionary Labor in Washington and Oregon=, by the same author, is a biography of the father.
=20. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs.= (1908.) Written by himself after a life of eighty years, fifty-six of them spent in Oregon and Washington. It contains a good account of the Seattle fire of 1889.
=21. Pioneer Days on Puget Sound.= (1888 and 1908.) Arthur A. Denny. An interesting autobiography and valuable for its story of the founding of Seattle.
=22. Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound, The Tragedy of Leschi. (1905.) Ezra Meeker. An account of the coming of the first whites, their encounters with the red race, the first treaties with the Indians, the war that followed, and the cruise of the author on Puget Sound fifty years ago. One edition contains Bagley's In the Beginning.
=23. The Ox Team; or The Old Oregon Trail.= (1906.) The story of a slow and eventful journey by ox team from the Middle West to this territory more than sixty years ago. Mr. Meeker and his oxen have been a conspicuous feature of several western expositions and are a picturesque relic of the fast-fading pioneer life. Today, Ezra Meeker, eighty-four years old, is crossing the continent in a "schoonermobile," a motor car built on the lines of the old-time prairie schooner. It contains a bed, a stove and a hunting outfit. He is retracing the journey of the ox cart.
=24. Russian Expansion on the Pacific, 1641-1850, An Account of the Expeditions Made by the Russians Along the Pacific.= Frank Alfred Golder. In January 1914 the author was sent to St. Petersburg to catalogue the materials in the Russian archives relating to America. The work was done for the Carnegie Institute, department of historical research. Professor Golder is one of the few American historians who are familiar with the Russian language and his selection was complimentary to him and to the State College.
=25. The Siwash, Their Life, Legends and Tales.= (1895.) J. A. Costello, an old resident of Puget Sound. The material was gathered chiefly from the Indians themselves. This book contains a good description of Chief Seattle. Out of print.
=26. Spokane and The Inland Empire.= (1912.) Mr. N. W. Durham. In three large volumes.
=27. Syllabus of Continental European History from Fall of Rome to 1870.= (1904.) Oliver Huntington Richardson.
=28. Tillicum Tales of Thurston County.= (1914.) Mrs. George Blankenship. Full of historical material of more than local value and interest.
=29. Washington and Its Swedish Population.= (1905.) Ernst Teofil Skarsteadt. The author has been a resident of the state fourteen years. As newspaper man and contributor to Eastern journals he has well covered the life of his fellow-countrymen in this state. He has written on subjects sociological, historical, agricultural and biographical.
=30. Our Heroes of the Pen.= Mr. Skarsteadt considers this his most valuable work.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION
Books on Alaska would fill a long shelf. Three are particularly entertaining and rich in description.
=31. Alaska, an Empire in the Making.= (1913.) John Jasper Underwood. Written after fourteen years continuous residence in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. The writer, a newspaper man, sees things from the impersonal viewpoint of the journalist with a keen appetite for news. For a time he ran the "farthest north" newspaper, which sold for "ivory, gold-dust and skins." These words are characteristic of his wide-sweeping vision: "Here is a land of 25,000 miles of coastline and with 6,000 miles of navigable waterways." The United States bureau of education has put this on the list as a standard work on Alaska.
=32. Alaska, Its Meaning to the World, Its Resources, Its Opportunities.= (1914.) Charles R. Tuttle. A good deal of space is given to the history of the Government railway legislation. It lauds the energy of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce which conducted a successful lobby in Washington city during the anxious months while the Alaska railway bill hung fire in Congress.
=33. Alaska, the Great Country.= (1908.) Ella Higginson. This third book is by a lady whom many love to call "our foremost story-teller and sweetest singer." It is most personal, crowded with real adventures, some of them humorous, which the reader shares vividly. Mrs. Higginson says, "No one writer has ever described Alaska. No one writer can ever describe it, but each must do his share according to the spell the country casts upon him." Her description is bright and fascinating. She is now revising it and bringing it up to date for a new edition.
=34. American Fur Trade of the Far West.= (1902.) Hiram Martin Chittenden.
=35. Yellowstone National Park, Historical and Descriptive.= Same author.
No. 34 is a history of the pioneer trading posts and early fur companies of the Missouri River and Rocky Mountains and of overland commerce.
No. 35 is the author's best known work. A fifth edition was published in 1905. No man has had a better opportunity to know the Yellowstone than Gen. Chittenden who was in charge of the government work there and no writer more evenly combines the scientific mind of the practical engineer with the charm of a poetic and artistic observer. To read this is next best to seeing the park.
=36. The City That Made Itself; A Literary and Pictorial Record of the Building of Seattle.= (1914.) Welford Beaton. Printed in a choice leatherbound silk-lined finely illustrated edition of three hundred copies which readily found their way to the libraries of the well-to-do. The book tells of the hills that have been laid low, of the valleys that have been filled, the tide flats that have been redeemed, of the street car lines and electric development. One chapter on the "Ladies Library Association" shows how women laid the foundation of the public library. Another chapter describes the architecture of the metropolis "from log cabin to sky scraper."
=37. Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage.= (1911.) Carrie Adell Strahorn. A woman's unique experience during thirty years of pathfinding and pioneering from the Missouri River to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico. An unusually interesting narration of the days when travel was beset with different if not more dangers than today. The book is put out attractively with 350 illustrations.
=38. Guardians of the Columbia.= (1912.) John H. Williams.
=39. The Mountain That Was God.= (1910.) Same author.
=40. Yosemite and the High Sierras.= (1914.) Same author. They are books of rare value, occupying a field by themselves. They are full of fascinating word pictures of mountain scenes. The first is of Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens. The city librarian of a Massachusetts city wrote to Mr. Williams "We have a radiopticon in our library. I shall mount the illustrations from your book and use the text for short talks on the mountains." No. 39 pictures Rainier which is called "Rainier-Tacoma." John Muir wrote "The glorious mountain is indebted to you for your magnificent book and so is every mountaineer." This contains the "flora of the mountain slopes" by J. B. Flett. The third book is dedicated to the Sierra Club with an introductory poem by Robert Service.
=41. The North American Indian.= (1908-1915.) Edward S. Curtis. It is doubtful if any book which has to do with our state has attracted to it so much notice as these ten volumes of Indian lore illustrated by superb photographs taken by the author. He spent years in getting first hand acquaintance with some of the tribes and in securing the pictures which have made him famous. Theodore Roosevelt wrote the preface and J. Pierpont Morgan subscribed $3,000 as an advance guarantee.
=42. Rambles in Colonial Byways.= (1900.) Rufus Rockwell Wilson.
=43. Romance of Feudal Chateaux.= (1900.) Elizabeth Williams Champney. This is one of a delightful series written in part before the author was a resident of the state. The others are
=44. Romance of French Abbeys.= (1905.)
=45. Romance of Italian Villas.= (1906.)
=46. Romance of Renaissance Chateaux.= (1907.)
=47. Romance of Bourbon Chateaux.= (1907.)
=48. Romance of Roman Villas.= (1908.)
=49. Romance of Imperial Rome.= (1910.) Mrs. Champney also wrote Great Grandmothers' Girls in New France and Three Vassar Girls.
=50. Romance of Old Belgium, from Caesar to Kaiser.= (1915.) Elizabeth Williams Champney and Frere Champney. A choice story full of the romance of truth. The illustrations are from Rubens' paintings, photographs and original pen and ink drawings.
=51. Seven Weeks in Hawaii.= (1913.) Minnie Leola Crawford.
=52. Seven Weeks in the Orient.= (1914.) Same author. Vacation letters, written by a business girl who was enjoying her trip to the full, were sent to the mother at home. They were passed on to be read by friends who saw that there was more than a personal interest in them and insisted on their publication. A Chicago publisher readily accepted them. Another vacation trip led to the second volume. The style is sprightly and original and photographs of the author's own taking illustrate both books.
=53. Seven Years on the Pacific Slope.= (1914.) Mrs. Hugh Fraser and Hugh C. Fraser. The writers lived in Okanogan County in a little village on the Methow River near its junction with the Columbia. They tell of ordinary events but give a clear picture of the development of that region from 1905 to 1912.
=54. Reminiscences of a Diplomatist's Wife.= (1912.) Either alone or in collaboration Mrs. Fraser has published ten volumes.
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL
=55. Birds of Washington.= William Leon Dawson and John Hooper Bowles. Two elegant volumes describing 372 species. There are three hundred original halftone illustrations. An analytical key for identification, by Lynds Jones.
=56. Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Washington.= Arthur Remington. Two volumes and supplement.
=57. Remington and Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington.= Two volumes and supplement. (1913.)
=58. Remington's 1915 Codes and Statutes of Washington.= (1916.) Two volumes.
=59. Elementary Flora of the Northwest.= (1914.) Theodore Christian Frye and George B. Rigg.
=60. Encyclopaedia of Practical Horticulture.= (1915.) Granville Lowther and William Worthington. Three large volumes.
=61. English Literature from Widsith to the Death of Chaucer. A Source Book.= (1916.) Allen Rogers Benham. It pictures the literary world in which Englishmen lived from early times to the year 1400 and represents ten years' work by the author.
=62. Essentials of Character.= (1910.) Edward O. Sisson. A practical study of education in moral character.
=63. Flora of the State of Washington.= (1906.) Charles V. Piper. Published by the Smithsonian Institution. Based on study of plants of the state during a period of twenty years. The most complete and accurate outline of the flora of the state.
=64. Flora of the Northwest Coast.= (1915.) Charles V. Piper and Rolla Kent Beattie.
=65. Forests and Reservoirs in Relation to Stream-flow.= Hiram M. Chittenden.
=66. Law, Legislative and Municipal Reference Libraries.= John B. Kaiser. An elaboration of lectures delivered before library classes in the University of Illinois. Valuable to the student of library work and to library investigators.
=67. Memorabilia Mathematica.= (1914.) Robert Edouard Moritz. It contains no mathematics at all but a remarkable collection of facts and sayings and incidents about mathematics and mathematicians. Of its 2160 selections a surprising number are interesting and many are even humorous.
=68. Multiple Money Standard.= (1896.) J. Allen Smith.
=69. Spirit of the American Government.= (1907.) Same author.
=70. Outlines of General Chemistry.= (1915.) Horace G. Byers.
=71. Parliamentary Procedure.= (1898.) Adele M. Fielde.
=72. Political Primer for New York City and State.= (1900.) Same author. The first book, which had been used by many classes in parliamentary law, was reprinted in Seattle in 1914. Chinese Fairy Stories has also been reprinted. Miss Fielde has issued more than 200,000 pieces of literature intended for the education of Washington women. The most of them have been distributed without cost. Her chosen subjects were social hygiene, temperance, and direct legislation. In earlier years she wrote on the life of the ant.
=73. Practical treatise on Sub-Aqueous Foundations.= (1914.) Charles Evan Fowler.
=74. Principles of Education.= (1911.) Frederick Elmer Bolton.
=75. Refutation of the Darwinian Theory of the Origin of Mankind.= John C. Stallcup.
=76. Regulation.= (1913.) W. G. Barnard. A series of essays on political economy. An optimistic view of the difficulties of the economic situation, encouraging the student to believe that "there is a remedy for every evil." There are chapters on land, wages, interest, profits and money.
FICTION
=77. Black Bear.= (1910.) William H. Wright.
=78. Grizzly Bear.= (1909.) Same author.
=79. The Bridge of the Gods.= Frederick Balch. The writer grew up in Klickitat county. When a boy he resolved to write about the Indians of the Columbia and began collecting material by haunting their camps for days at a time. A lady who has lived in the state sixty-four years says "It is the only story that tells accurately of the early life of those Indians."
=80. Chaperoning Adrienne; Through the Yellowstone.= (1907.) Alice Harriman. This lady has distinguished herself in several ways, first as poetess and contributor to magazines, then as book publisher. Other books she wrote are Stories of Montana, Men Two Counties, besides poems and one juvenile work. Her house has a number of first class books to its credit. She brought out Lafcadio Hearne's Temptations of St. Anthony. She took special pride in bringing out books on western topics, as the narratives of the two Dennys and the story which become the opera Narcissa.
=81. Club Stories.= (1915.) Members of federated clubs. Written in competition for a prize offered by the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Of twenty-two stories submitted the twelve receiving highest rank were published. The scene of each is laid in Washington so they are full of local color and have a value apart from their literary merit. First prize was won by Mrs. Robert J. Fisher.
=82. Every Child.= (1915.) Gertrude Fulton Tooker. The author had previously published a few poems but when she was busier than ever before in her life, caring for two children, she found time to write this pleasing allegory. It deserves a welcome by all people who remember the visions and dreams of child-life.
=83. Forest Orchid and Other Stories.= (1902.) Ella Higginson.
=84. From the Land of the Snow Pearls.= (1897.) Same author.
=85. Mariella of Out-west.= (1902.) Same author. These are the stories of one who is widely known as our first story writer. Her name became known when she won, over a thousand competitors, a McClure prize for five hundred dollars. That story was "The Takin' in of old Miss Lane," 1894. Since then she has written scores of stories which have appeared in many different magazines. She has handled some types which are accepted in the far east as representative of the west and are not complimentary to the good taste and social polish of this longitude. But no author of the state has been ranked so high by the reviewers and critics. All her literary work has been done in this state. She shows constantly increasing strength.
=86. Ginsey Krieder.= Sarah Endicott Ober, nom de plume, Huldah Herrick.
=87. Little Tommy, or Ma'am Duffy's Lesson.= (1891.) Same author.
=88. Stacy's Room, or One Year's Building.= (1888.) Same author.