BLAZING THE WAY
Reading edition
OR TRUE STORIES, SONGS AND SKETCHES OF PUGET SOUND AND OTHER PIONEERS
BY EMILY INEZ DENNY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR AND FROM AUTHENTIC PHOTOGRAPHS
SEATTLE: RAINIER PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. 1909
Copyright 1899 By EMILY INEZ DENNY Published 1909
To My Dear Father and Mother, Faithful Friends and Counselors, Whose pioneer life I shared, This book is affectionately dedicated By THE AUTHOR
A star stood large and white awest, Then Time uprose and testified; They push’d the mailed wood aside, They toss’d the forest like a toy, That great forgotten race of men, The boldest band that yet has been Together since the siege of Troy, And followed it and found their rest. —Miller