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Echoes of Puget Sound by Captain Torger Birkeland 50 yrs of logging loose MAP
Echoes of Puget Sound by Captain Torger Birkeland MAP
Fifty years of logging and steamboating
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1960
251 pages
Contents:
Table of Contents
Chapter
I. THE WHISTLE PUNK
II. THE LITTLE SKOOKUM
III. IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE OLYMPICS
IV. DOG FISH BAY
V. SHELTON TO LA CONNER
VI. MY LOGGING DAYS ENDED
VII. STEAMBOATING
VIII. THE QUARTERMASTER
IX. MID THE SAN JUAN ISLES
X. THE "SOL DUC" AND THE "COMANCHE"
XI. THE STEAMBOAT FIGHT
XII. THE "ATHLON'S" LAST RUN
XIII. BACK HOME ON THE "HYAK"
XIV. THE FERRYBOATS
In the early days of the twentieth century the Mosquito Fleet played a colorful and important part in the life and economic development of the Puget Sound country. The fleet was composed of a myriad of steamboats of all sizes - each with a personality of its own. Many of these vessels have become legendary. Scurrying around the Sound in every sort of weather, the only links between many towns and settlements, these craft formed the largest and most picturesque fleet of its kind the world has known. They wrote an important chapter in Pacific Northwest history. This is their story, told by one who helped to bring the Mosquito Fleet to its golden age and then watched it wane.
ECHOES OF PUGET SOUND is also the story of Torger Birkeland. As a lad he came to America with his family and started working as a whistle punk in logging camps at the age of eleven. At twenty he finally turned to sea. From then on his life was indivisibly linked with steamboating on Puget Sound. He took part in the extension of routes ; he moved from vessel to vessel as the fleet increased in size; he knew promoters and owners and hundreds of commuters personally, and he felt the excitement and intense competition of the rate wars. Then, as highways were built and automobile transportation grew, Captain Birkeland saw the Mosquito Fleet disappear and the ferry fleets develop. He witnessed an entire era in the history of transportation.
Captain Birkeland tells of his experiences with a charming simplicity. He reports honestly and well, giving a graphic account of life on Puget Sound in the early 1900's. His is a truly authentic and very readable contribution to Pacific Northwest Americana.
With a preface by Joshua Green, pioneer businessman, early steamboat operator, and one of the region's most colorful personalities.
Jacket illustration shows the ferry Evergreen State at Orcas in the beautiful San Juan Islands.
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