That title is how I justify including this amusement in my blog. From “News of the Weird“: David Myrland, an anti-government “sovereign” now serving three years in federal prison for threatening the mayor of… Continue reading
“The Story of a Stump.” (Click to see it deciphered.) First page: Page 2: Found by a miracle, in Google Books. (“Forest and Stream” magazine, December 5, 1903, pages 438-439, by HG Dulog.)… Continue reading
Another in a continuing series: We Cascadians seem to frequently unite two of our big passions: Good drinks, and Chinook Jargon. Doesn’t this look good? [My postal address is available on request for… Continue reading
Ever find a Chinook surprise? I grew up in Spokane, Washington, but I’d never known that a local lake, Medical Lake, once was known as… …Skookum Limechen Chuck (‘Powerful Medicine Water’), or Skookum… Continue reading
Spoiler alert: What is a tea-tea? (Scroll to bottom.) Glauert, Earl T. and Merle H. Kunz (eds.) 1976. Kittitas frontiersmen. Ellensburg, WA: Ellensburg Public Library. FYI about ‘Kittitas’: the pronunciation [KITTittass] is usual… Continue reading
[&c.] By Gustavus Hines. 1850. Buffalo: George H. Derby & Co. Page 31: Mr. D[aniel] Lee and Mr. Perkins learned the Chenook language ‘as spoken in the vicinity of Vancouver’, Washington. Page 167:… Continue reading
1902. By Edward S. Farrow. [“Late assistant instructor of tactics at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and formerly commanding Indian Scouts in the Department of the Columbia.”] Philadelphia: American Arms Publishing… Continue reading
[See part 1 for full info on this fascinating memoir of life in the Washington Okanagan country, 1880s-1930s. It’s still in print, apparently, from Okanogan County Historical Society. Click the picture to visit… Continue reading
{Have you subscribed to get notified of my blog posts via email?} See my first post about this book for bibliographic info. In this installment, notice the vivid descriptions of sign language… Continue reading
Part 1 of a multi-part blog post… “From Copenhagen to Okanogan” by U[lrich] E[nglehardt] Fries, 2nd printing published 1951 by Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho. It’s one of my favorite books for quotations… Continue reading
