The Northwest Coast, or 3 Years’ Residence in WA Territory

James G Swan. In 1849 "this account by a renegade Bostonian, who lived among the Indians at Willapa Bay, is particularly valuable because it shows us a man who was both a sensitive observer and participant in the white settlers' invasion of the Indians' lands… as the earliest book about Washington Territory, according to Murray Morgan, 'sets a standard few other works about the area have met. A self-taught scientist, runaway husband, promoter,teacher,essayist, town-boomer,probate judge and alcoholic, Swan wrote with robust humor about the period in which the territory was created' " Pacific Northwest