Category: History: U.S.: Western U.S.

Copyright/published Year: 1882 by Castlemoyle Books

ISBN: ##########

Binding: Electroni

Description:
Historic Sketches of Walla walla, Whitman, Columbia and ì Garfield Counties, Washington Territory and Umatilla County, ì Oregon

Few persons read the preface to a book except authors, editors ì and critics, and they with a purpose mainly, of judging the ì writer's opportunity for understanding his subject. I would, ì therefore, say I tha.t in this instance it consists: first, in ì having spent a large proportion of the time since 1873 in ì studying it; second, in having become familiar with the Pacific ì Coast by personal observation of its various historic localities, ì made through ten years of travel between Mexico and British ì Columbia; third, in having previously written local histories of ì various parts of the region mentioned, including counties in and ì the states of, California and Nevada; fourth, in having availed ì myself of the opportunity presented of perusing the contents of ì volumes treating upon this subject, contained in the numerous ì public and several valuable private libraries in California, ì Nevada, Oregon and Washington Territory, and in a careful ì exa~ination of numerous' newspaper files, journals of pioneers, ì and private collections of historic data; fifth, in having ì interviewed a small army of argonauts who have been met with in ì Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington ì Territory, among whom were those living on the Pacific Coast ì since 1830; and, with all this opportunity, there remains the ì necessity only of 'recording a regret that these "Sketches" are ì not more complete and traced with an abler pen.

The design was not to produce a complete history, but present ì to the reader a brief glimpse of the whole-a glimpse of the Coast ì from its discovery; of California until Oregon ceased to be a ì part of it; of Oregon while Washington Territory was within her ì boundary limits; of the latter from its creation until WalIa ì Walla, Columbia, Whitman, and Garfield had been born into the ì sisterhood of counties.

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