Daily Archive: February 8, 2021

1924: Seattle and Environs: a new old CW vocabulary

An obscure but original (and good) Chinuk Wawa lexicon from Puget Sound deserves more attention…

More clues in Franchère 1820

I’ve long owned a copy of Gabriel Franchère’s memoir of life at Fort Astoria (Pacific Fur Co.) in the early 1810s…