It’s a 4-banger!!!! (Bang=exclamation point, in typesetter lingo.) I put it in capitals to make it seem like headline news. You’ve got to compete with CNN and Fox News these days. Really, what… Continue reading
Just to bring alive for you one of the uses we talk about the Jargon having–a “token of pioneer identity”, a “badge of Northwesternness”–I give you the following correspondence, nine letters that were… Continue reading
“Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon, and California, 1865-1881″ Boston: Lee and Shepard / New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1884 The title and subtitle tell you… Continue reading
I mentioned that you find the coolest, un-indexed Chinook Jargon words scattered through all sorts of other materials. Those words can tell you a lot of surprising stories about how CJ was being… Continue reading
Mary Moses’s Statement. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon, 1988. (No author or editor credited.) Another invaluable publication by Glen Adams about Inland Northwest history. Man, the Ye Galleon catalog must be hundreds of items… Continue reading
Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: An Account of Their Forests, Rivers, Coasts, Gold Fields and Resources for Colonisation By Richard C. Mayne. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1862. More or less a… Continue reading
Looking through an antiquarian bookseller’s website, I spied a neat-sounding book that was new to me. They wanted a shocking price, but Google Books had it as a free ebook 🙂 Turns out… Continue reading
