14. History of Washington, The Rise and Progress of an American State. (1909-1911.) Clinton A. Snowden. Four elegant volumes in half-leather and rich in illustrations. Two later volumes issued as supplements are wholly biographical.
15. The Iron Way. (1907.) Sarah Pratt Carr. The story of the building of the Central Pacific, the first transcontinental railway.
16. The Cost of Empire. Same author. The record of the Whitman massacre. It was made the basis of the opera "Narcissa" of which Mrs Carr's daughter, Mary Carr Moore, wrote the music.
17. Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens. (1900.) Hazard Stevens. The two volumes contain much information about the early Indian wars, councils and treaties. They show the simplicity of official form during the life of the first Governor of the Territory.
18. Marcus Whitman, Pathfinder and Patriot. (1909.) Rev. Myron Eells. The author is son of Rev. Cushing Eells, founder of Whitman College and personal friend and co-worker with Whitman.
19. Fathers Eells, or the Results of 55 Years of Missionary Labor in Washington and Oregon, by the same author, is a biography of the father.
20. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs. (1908.) Written by himself after a life of eighty years, fifty-six of them spent in Oregon and Washington. It contains a good account of the Seattle fire of 1889.
21. Pioneer Days on Puget Sound. (1888 and 1908.) Arthur A. Denny. An interesting autobiography and valuable for its story of the founding of Seattle.
22. Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound, The Tragedy of Leschi. (1905.) Ezra Meeker. An account of the coming of the first whites, their encounters with the red race, the first treaties with the Indians, the war that followed, and the cruise of the author on Puget Sound fifty years ago. One edition contains Bagley's In the Beginning.
23. The Ox Team; or The Old Oregon Trail. (1906.) The story of a slow and eventful journey by ox team from the Middle West to this territory more than sixty years ago. Mr. Meeker and his oxen have been a conspicuous feature of several western expositions and are a picturesque relic of the fast-fading pioneer life. Today, Ezra Meeker, eighty-four years old, is crossing the continent in a "schoonermobile," a motor car built on the lines of the old-time prairie schooner. It contains a bed, a stove and a hunting outfit. He is retracing the journey of the ox cart.