Discovering the Region: Commentary

1. Account of Juan de Fuca's Voyage

2. Lemuel Gulliver [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World


3. Spanish Explorers: Juan Pérez, José Navaéz, and Tomás de Suría

4. George Vancouver, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean

5. Voyages of the Columbia

6. Jefferson's Instructions to Lewis

7. William Clark, Account of Travels Down the Columbia River

8. David Nicandri, "About the Cover," State of Washington Voters Pamphlet

9. George Simpson on the Fur Trade

10. Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, Letters

11. James G. Swan, The Northwest Coast

12. Helen Hunt Jackson, "Puget Sound"

13. John Muir, "An Ascent of Mount Rainier"

14. Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea

15. Thomas Wolfe, A Western Journal: A Daily Log of the Great Parks Trip

16. Fred Beckey

17. Anna Louise Strong, I Change Worlds: The Remaking of an American

18. Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart: A Personal History

19. Lois Phillips Hudson, "Children of the Harvest"

20. Jonathan Raban, Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America

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