Junius Rochester, whose family has shaped the city for many generations, is an award-winning Northwest historian and author of numerous books about Seattle and other places.
One of the most popular teachers on campus because of his "Socratic" classroom method, Vernon Parrington quietly pursued his research, tended his garden, raised two daughters and a son with his wife Julia, and wrote prodigiously.
Following Bering's discovery of sea-otter riches, an almost endless train of adventurers and brigands struck out from Asia for North America with wild dreams of staggering wealth.
Locally, the debate over Smith's book became so acrimonious (shades of today's attack on "woke" academies) that several state legislators in 1915 introduced an amendment to a University Appropriations Bill abolishing Smith's department.
Upon entering the University of Washington Anderson's natural speed and athletic ability impressed the famous track and field coach Clarence S. "Hec" Edmondson.Â
Allegedly based on several characters from his hometown of Weston, Oregon -- the fictional town in Oregon Detour was called "Creston" -- the book caused something of a scandal in Oregon.
In time, the great western lands and waters attracted Nordics to familiar professions: dairying, logging, fishing, mining, and village businesses. During the late 1880s Scandinavians found their way to the Pacific Northwest.
An 1853 edition of the Columbian, the newspaper of record at that time, reported that "fourteen sawmills" were in operation on Puget Sound, most of them run by waterpower from nearby streams and rivers.