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THE

LOG SCHOOL-HOUSE ON

THE COLUMBIA

A TALE OF THE PIONEERS OF THEGREAT NORTHWEST

BY

HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH

AUTHOR OF THE ZIGZAG BOOKS

ILLUSTRATED

New York
D. Appleton and Company

1890

Gretchen at the Potlatch Feast.

PREFACE.

A year or more ago one of the librarians in charge of the young people'sbooks in the Boston Public Library called my attention to the fact thatthere were few books of popular information in regard to the pioneers ofthe great Northwest. The librarian suggested that I should write a storythat would give a view of the heroic lives of the pioneers of Oregon andWashington.

Soon after this interview I met a distinguished educator who had latelyreturned from the Columbia River, who told me the legend of the old chiefwho died of grief in the grave of his son, somewhat in the mannerdescribed in this volume. The legend had those incidental qualities thathaunt a susceptible imagination, and it was told to me in such a dramaticway that I could not put it out of my mind.

A few weeks after hearing this haunting legend I went over the RockyMountains by the Canadian Pacific Railway, and visited the Columbia Riverand the scenes associated with the Indian story. I met in Washington,Yesler, Denney, and Hon. Elwood Evans, the historian; visited the daughterof Seattle, the chief, "Old Angeline"; and gathered original stories inregard to the pioneers of the Puget Sound country from many sources. Inthis atmosphere the legend grew upon me, and the outgrowth of it is thisvolume, which, amid a busy life of editorial and other work, has forceditself upon my experience.

H.B.
28 WORCESTER STREET, BOSTON, July 4, 1890.

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