A pioneer's search for an ideal home
Subtitle: a book of personal memoirs
By: by Phoebe Goodell Judson ; foreword by Susan Armitage.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Judson, Phoebe Goodell, 1832-1926.; Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Pioneers -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound Region -- Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound Region.; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860.; Puget Sound Region (Wash.) -- Biography.
Description: Phoebe Judson was a young bride in 1853 when she and her husband crossed the plains from Ohio to the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory. She was ninety-five when this book was first published in 1925. The years between were spent in "a pioneer's search for an ideal home" and in living there, when it was finally found at the head of the Nooksack River, almost on the Canadian border. Phoebe Judson's account of the journey west is based on daily diary eies detailing her fear, excitement, and exhaustion. At the end of the trail, the Judsons encountered hardships aplenty, causing them to abandon a farm and business in Olympia before their arrival in the Nooksack Valley. During the Indian Wars they holed up in a fort at Claquato. In time, Phoebe overcame her fear of the Indians, learned the Chinook language, and won their friendship. All this is told in vivid detail by a woman of great dignity and charm whom readers will long remember. - Back cover.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint. Originally published: Bellingham, Wash. : Printed by Union Printing, Binding, and Stationary Co., 1925.