Town of Darrington Snohomish County, Washington

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  • Feature Type: Incorporated

 

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Town of Darrington Official
Darrington Official

 

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A Bibliography for Town of Darrington, Snohomish County, Washington

Pioneers of the Stillaguamish by Dennis Conroy, Carol Husby Ronken

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Published by local historians Dennis Conroy and Carol Husby Ronken, Pioneers of the Stillaguamish compiles extensive genealogical records, historical photographs, and pioneer recollections to chronicle the early European-American settlement of the Stillaguamish River valley in Washington. The book details the arduous process of clearing dense old-growth timber, establishing homesteads, and building rudimentary roads and schools along the unpredictable river corridor during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By centering the struggles and daily lives of ordinary families, the text preserves the foundational social fabric of communities like Arlington and Stanwood. A keen insight drawn from the work is how local pioneer histories capture the immense cognitive dissonance of frontier expansion; by meticulously detailing the relentless destruction of ancient forests to plant farms, the text unwittingly reveals how the triumph of civilization for homesteaders was simultaneously an act of catastrophic ecological erasure for the valley's original inhabitants

viii, 149 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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Biographies · 1st ed · Cascade Writing, Camano Island, WA, 2005
Related Catalog Items: Town of Darrington · City of Stanwood · East Stanwood · North Stanwood · City of Arlington · City of Granite Falls · Oso · Bryant · Silvana · Snohomish County

 


Darrington, mining town/timber town by Elizabeth S. Poehlman

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The cast of characters in Elizabeth Poehlman’s book, Darrington: Mining Town/Timber Town reads like a Wild West novel set in Paul Bunyan country. But this is no novel – Poehlman has written a memorable small-town history. The book starts in the late 1800s with the struggles of Chief Wawetkin and the Sauk-Suiattle Indians to deal with the onset of miners and settlers throughout their homelands deep in what would soon be renamed the North Cascades mountains in the new state of Washington. Subsequent chapters feature gold-fevered miners (and a revenge murder); a hotel owner who asked to be deputized for a half hour to deal with a knife-wielding drunk the sheriff couldn’t handle; the town doctor who kept a bear cub as a pet; the “sky pilot” minister who was too scared to preach in the rough railroad logging camps, opting to show slides instead; the Tarheels who followed the timber industry from North Carolina and brought their love of bluegrass and moonshine; the Depression-era housewife who distrusted banks and stashed her family’s savings around her waist in a hidden money belt – enough to almost pay off their land and house. Darrington, as Poehlman learned while living there, may be backwoods, but never boring.

176 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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History · 1st Edition · Gold Hill Press, Shoreline, Wash., 1995
Related Catalog Items: Town of Darrington · Snohomish County

 


 

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