Category: History - American
Anderson, C. G. W. 76 Anderson, J. F. 184 Anderson, Graebert 94 Anderson, Oscar 78 A Group of Representative Ladies 12 Arntson, J. M. 120 A Scene of Pioneer Life 39 A Rustic Bridge 106 Another Scene of the Wenatchee 29 A Puget Sound Cedar 23 A Miner at His Cabin 32 A Musician...
Anderson, C. G. W. 76 Anderson, J. F. 184 Anderson, Graebert 94 Anderson, Oscar 78 A Group of Representative Ladies 12 Arntson, J. M. 120 A Scene of Pioneer Life 39 A Rustic Bri...
2. CHAPTER I.High and noble stands the Rocky, looking downward, where jeweled brows hang, where silvery waves make music on the deep, or the sea maid shakes her streaming locks. As early as...
3. CHAPTER II.No class of people or nation deserves the title, cosmopolitan, better than the Vikings. Their names mingle with the history of England, France, Russia and Italy, and in the West...
4. CHAPTER III.Seattle, the metropolis of Washington, and the busiest city on the Pacific coast, has a romantic history, as well as a history of thrift and progress. Thirty-five years ago only...
5. CHAPTER IV.Scandinavians in Seattle have contributed largely to the social feature of life. They have organized a number of societies, some flourished immensely for some time, then died a...
6. CHAPTER V.Ballard merits the appellation, City of Smokestacks. No small town west of the Rocky has more factories. Saw mills and shingle mills are sending clouds of smoke into the air day...
7. CHAPTER VI.Tacoma, or the City of Destiny, is the second city in population in the State of Washington, and the first in natural grandeur. It is situated on fine terraces, commanding a bea...
8. CHAPTER VII.A number of Scandinavian societies have sprung into existence in Tacoma the last two decades. The Valhalla, a Swedish fraternal and beneficial organization, was the first that b...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Few cities during the short longevity of eight years have blossomed like Everett. In 1891 it sprang into life midst the greatest of stir and excitement, and has ever since enjoy...
10. CHAPTER IX.Stanwood is the largest Scandinavian community in the State of Washington, situated in Snohomish county, on a delta-like angle, where the Skagit and the Stillaguamish rivers mee...
11. CHAPTER X.The Stillaguamish valley, spreading out for a considerable distance on both sides of the wandering river, which starts in the green-clad hills, looming up in the southeast, and...
12. CHAPTER XI.Three miles east of Stanwood smiles a beautiful villa, which fifteen years ago received the baptism Cedarhome. It seems as though Nature in her wisdom long, long ago took specia...
13. CHAPTER XII.The Skagit valley is a stretch of inexhaustible fertility, commencing at the mouth of the river and running northward for scores of miles, and spreads out, east and west, into a...
14. CHAPTER XIII.It is but few places where nature has been so kind and lavishing with her store of grandeur as in Bellingham Bay. Sweet in music, the happy ripples dance to kiss the pebbled bor...
15. CHAPTER XIV.The rippling bells are ringing, The druid woods are singing, And mellow throats hang on the air Pouring their hearts into music rare. Ever ringing, Ever singing, At Poulsbo Bay.