Phoebe Goodell Judson reminisces about her 1853 trek from Ohio to Puget Sound, Olympia during the Indian Wars, and settling in the Nooksack Valley where she and her husband founded the town of Lynden. Published when she was 95 years old, her story provides a woman’s insight into pioneer life in the Washington Territory.
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