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Octavo. Pp. viii, 198. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering stamped on front board and spine, blind stamped border front and back, decorated endpapers, decorative initial caps. Blank preliminary inscribed by the author to Ada Woodruff Anderson, signed and dated August 1906, with signature of Virginia McCarver Prosch. Light wear to corners and spine ends, spine and head edges sunned, fore edge stains. P. 190 subheading with manuscript correction. Detailed history of a very active pioneer, including his scheme to establish Sacramento after tiring of gold mining, and subsequent selection of Commencement Bay for a prosperous city, correctly forseeing it as terminus for the Northern Pacific Railway.Of the many reasons to enjoy Prosch, humor is paramount. And he lacks the crankiness and self-righteousness of some ancient pioneers, who require adoration for simply having shown up before others. Arriving Steilacoom as a child in 1858, his father Charles founded the Territory's second newspaper. In young adulthood Thomas bought another South Sound newspaper from his father then, later, he migrated north to Seattle, where he became a leading citizen and, increasingly, an able historian of the region.SMITH 8387, HOWES P634, MINTZ 381, SOLIDAY III-773.Ada Woodruff Anderson arrived in Thurston County in 1864 at age four, and was to become well-known as a Pacific Northwest novelist while residing on Bainbridge Island and participating in her husband's photography supply business.
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