Stevens Pass: Gateway to Seattle

by Joann Roe

Overview

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press

The history of the opening of Stevens Pass through the northern Cascades into the Seattle region is a saga of nearly superhuman feats by railroad construction crews, ghastly design mistakes, natural catastrophes, and the determination of railroad owners to connect isolated communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870044281
Publisher:	Caxton Press
Publication date:	10/20/2017
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.28(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

An award winning author of a dozen books, JoAnn Roe has lived in the western United States all her life and continues to write about the people and history of the West.

Table of Contents

	Preface	6
	Acknowledgments	7
	Introduction	9
	The East Side: Early Years	13
1.	Life among the Wenatchi Indians	13
2.	Confrontation	18
3.	Early White Settlers	32
	The Railroad	49
4.	The Search for Stevens Pass	49
5.	Rails Westward	58
6.	Construction Camp Settlements	67
7.	Electrification and the Cascade Tunnel	79
8.	The Eight-Mile Tunnel	92
	Leavenworth	103
9.	Town Beginnings	103
10.	Boomtown	116
11.	Ski Town	127
12.	Bavarian Town	142
	The West Side	149
13.	Index and Skykomish	149
	Natural Resources	165
14.	Forests and Fish	165
	Afterword	178
	Bibliography	182
	Index	188