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Contains 7 Tlingit Indian legends as told by Robert Zuboff, head of the Beaver Clan at Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska.

"In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of contact, are involved in fighting or treaties, and then seem to vanish, usually onto reservations. In Native Seattle, Coll Thrush explodes the commonly accepted notion that Indians and cities - and thus Indian and urban histories - are mutually exclusive, that Indians and cities cannot coexist, and that one must necessarily...

"The skeleton known as Kennewick Man was discovered in 1966 by two young men along the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. When the skeleton was brought to Jim Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, Chatters first believed that the remains were those of a nineteenth-century pioneer. He was astonished when radiocarbon dating revealed the skeleton to be approximately 9,500 years old, making it one of the oldest skeletons ever found in North America....

Among the fur traders who headed to Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia was Ross Cox who arrived in 1812, and left in 1817. He kept a journal of these years. Appearing in this volume as a companion, is the journal of Alexander Ross, author, and servant of three fur companies. Both accounts were published many years ago. They are here presented in a simplified form by Cecil Dryden. -- amazon.com.