Mrs. Hugh Fraser
Seven Years on the Pacific Slope
Paperback
(Forgotten Books Nov. 16, 2016)
Excerpt from Seven Years on the Pacific Slope
The incorporation of Washington in the Union - Quarrels over boundary lines - Its unique geographical position - Twenty-three million acres of forest and five rivers - The call of free spaces - Life in the raw - A man-sized country - "Live and let live" - Conflicting valuations - Daniel Webster's mistake - The Home Valley, a true Republic - How we came to the Methow - Why we stayed.
Just twenty-five years ago, a rather irregular square, occupying the extreme northwest corner of the United States territory, was promoted, as Washington, to the honour of being the twenty-ninth of the now existing forty-five States of the Union. Its sixty-nine thousand square miles of rich, unexplored surface had been quarrelled over for many years, and it was only in 1846 that a boundary line was definitely drawn up and agreed upon by the High Contracting Litigants, Great Britain and the United States.
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The incorporation of Washington in the Union - Quarrels over boundary lines - Its unique geographical position - Twenty-three million acres of forest and five rivers - The call of free spaces - Life in the raw - A man-sized country - "Live and let live" - Conflicting valuations - Daniel Webster's mistake - The Home Valley, a true Republic - How we came to the Methow - Why we stayed.
Just twenty-five years ago, a rather irregular square, occupying the extreme northwest corner of the United States territory, was promoted, as Washington, to the honour of being the twenty-ninth of the now existing forty-five States of the Union. Its sixty-nine thousand square miles of rich, unexplored surface had been quarrelled over for many years, and it was only in 1846 that a boundary line was definitely drawn up and agreed upon by the High Contracting Litigants, Great Britain and the United States.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
- ISBN
- 1330326660 / 9781330326664
- Pages
- 440
- Weight
- 25.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 1.0 in.
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