Did they really interview any of these folks?

A sight that would’ve been familiar to many readers of the “Chinook Paper” was this frontier scene…

This resemblance has been pointed out since the 19th century…

A generation into the post-frontier era, the big city paper has a positively jazzy Jargon-tinged poem with a uniquely Pacific NW flavor.

The 18th pair of pages in this precious document again brings us plenty of stuff worth knowing about Chinook Jargon.

I’ve shared many corny thoughts here lately.

…Than there was on the maritime & riverine route.

Today, George Gibbs teaches us something about the Southern Dialect’s ‘when/where’…

“Pioneers”, the first waves of non-Indigenous newcomers into the Pacific Northwest, were always associated with Chinook Jargon.

This is not the first time we’ve run into the “Old Dan Tucker” folksong on my website…