Covered Wagon Women
The letter of Anna Maria King, Luckiamute Valley, Oregon, April 1, 1846: [page 44:] The Indians appear to be very friendly, like to have the Bostons come, as they call them. Tabitha Brown (1780-1858, co-founder… Continue reading
The letter of Anna Maria King, Luckiamute Valley, Oregon, April 1, 1846: [page 44:] The Indians appear to be very friendly, like to have the Bostons come, as they call them. Tabitha Brown (1780-1858, co-founder… Continue reading
(Notice how I’m indulging in exclamations this week?!) Here, for you to practice reading connected Chinuk Wawa speech, is a much fuller account of the 1870 expedition to climb Mt. Rainier that was… Continue reading
“Early Days at White Salmon and the Dalles”, by Camilla Thomson Donnell. Washington Historical Quarterly IV(1) [January 1913], pages 105-115. Page 109: Rev. Mr. Tenney gave me this incident. He said: “I preached the… Continue reading
Chinookers will recognize “callipeen” as a Jargon word for “rifle”–or generically for “gun”. I’m more used to the synonym “maskit” (musket), but both are valid. Like a lot of languages’ words for this… Continue reading
From Everybody’s Magazine (did O. Henry really edit it?). Volume X, number 2 (February 1904), page 292. “Delate hyas kloshe papah. Halo kultus wawa kopa ocoke Konaway Tilacums. Delate skoom kumamook [sic]. … Continue reading
[Final installment. See previous episodes for more info on this fascinating pioneer memoir…life in the Okanogan Highlands of Washington State, 1880s-1930s. Most of what I’ve excerpted in this blog happened in the last… Continue reading