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.
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.
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.
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.
In 1893 a regional historian with a penchant for hyperbole described King County as "emphatically one of the great, if not the greatest, counties of the Northwest . . ."