Looking Back: Volume 1 (Whatcom County, WA History) [B2005]

1980 PB third edition, 248-pages, clean with just minor wear. Excerpted from the Preface: "Historical development is set in motion by people. Men and women make history; their ideas, dreams, goals shape a community. This is a Whatcom County history according to the early settlers from the East, Midwest, and South of the United States and Europe. Diversification came with growth as the economy developed. This book endeavors to re-count in writing and to illustrate by photographs the aspirations and achievements of those early settlers. It seeks to portray the complexity of Whatcom County culture, institutions and manners. The authors, Dorothy Koert and Galen Biery, have lived here all of their lives and have done more than fifty years of research. Their families were early settlers. The story begins with the first settlers and Fert Bellingham because this is the background and basis of our modern institutions and cities."

Chapter Titles: 1. Fort of Bellingham and First Settlers; 2. Nelson Bennett and Fairhaven Boom; 3. Coal Mines; 4. Rex and Marion Odell-Pioneer Tales; 5. Bloedel-Donovan; 6. Pacific American Fisheries; 7. Ships; 8. Mt. Baker Marathon, Huntoon and Mt. Baker Lodge; 9. Recorders of History--Writers and Photographers; 10. The Normal School--W.W.U.; 11. Early Fishermen; 12. Truck Gardeners; 13. Port Activities