Bellingham Bay and the San Juan Island difficulty : Port Townsend, Washington : ms., 1878.

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Roder, Henry. Bellingham Bay and the San Juan Island difficulty : Port Townsend, Washington : ms., 1878.

Bellingham Bay and the San Juan Island difficulty : Port Townsend, Washington : ms., 1878.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25765508

Dictation by an overland emigrant to California, 1850, who went on to Washington in 1852. Concerning experiences in the diggings; narrow escape from Joaquín Murrieta's band; salmon fishing in the Sacramento and at the Falls of the Willamette; lumber boom on Puget Sound following the San Francisco fire of 1852; beginnings of Port Townsend and Whatcom; early coal mines on Bellingham Bay; the beginnings of Olympia, Seattle, and Fort Bellingham; Indian difficulties of the 1850's; the San Juan Island dispute; shipping on Puget Sound; and the Fraser River gold rush.

Originals : 48 leaves ; 32 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (49 exposures) : negative (Rich. 107:4) and positive.

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