Bruseth, Beate.

United States Forest Service employee and historian, Nels Bruseth (1886-1957) wrote numerous articles about forestry, recreation, the town of Darrington, Washington, and the local history of the Snohomish County area. Born in 1886 in Stanwood, Washington, Bruseth joined the Forest Service in 1916 as a trail worker and became a lookout on Mt. Pugh. He later became a foreman, and then the assistant to the District Ranger. Bruseth retired from the Forest Service in 1951. He was among the first to survey the Cascade Crest trail. He also was an amateur painter, anthropologist, photographer, botanist, geologist, and musician. He published a small book, Indian Stories and Legends of the Stillagaumish and Allied Tribes (1926), which went through several printings. Bruseth spent much of his adult life in Darrington, Washington, where he was considered the town historian. Many of his articles appeared in the Arlington Times during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1921, Bruseth married Beate Faulk (1898-1975), with whom he honeymooned on Mount Pugh; a brief account of their courtship is included in an article by Byron Fish.