Junius Rochester

At the old clarinetist's last house, a backyard boasted an imitation of the Parthenon and the fence around it consisted, in part, of old bedsteads. 

By the end of 1943 Hanford had stealthily risen from the Columbia Plateau.  Hanford had been founded in 1906 on the south bank of the Columbia River by the Hanford Irrigation and Power Company, named after Seattleite Judge Cornelius H. Hanford.

Author of "Of Time and the River, "Look Homeward, Angel," and other examples of the most descriptive prose in our time, Wolfe toured the Western National Parks in June of 1938 in the back seat of a Ford sedan as he entered Washington State.

Chief Sealth (Seattle), who reluctantly gave his name to a future Puget Sound metropolis, may have been right when he warned of his people's spirits hovering among today's busy city dwellers.

The relative isolation of the Pacific Northwest gave rise to the eastern view that our scenic new world would suppress radicalism.  This view proved dead wrong.

On July 17, 1885, Lt. O'Neil's party of six men and eight mules left Port Angeles and trudged up the Elwha River. 

Destiny and timing brought two highly developed peoples together -- Imperial Russia and the Alaska Natives -- so we can gaze at rare and delicate objects in virtually mint condition.

The travels and explorations by these weathered men helped mark trails, later to become wagon roads, and eventually the famous Oregon Trail.

Who was Chief Sealth, whose name was pronounced See-alth or sometimes See-attle?

With the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the 1890s, refrigerated fresh fish was shipped to eastern markets.  This activity made the Pacific Northwest fishing industry famous throughout the world.