MEMOIRS
OF
ORANGE JACOBS
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
CONTAINING MANY INTERESTING, AMUSING AND INSTRUCTIVE
INCIDENTS OF A LIFE OF EIGHTY YEARS OR MORE,
FIFTY-SIX YEARS OF WHICH WERE SPENT IN
OREGON AND WASHINGTON.
SEATTLE, WASH.
LOWMAN & HANFORD CO.
1908
DEDICATION.
To the Pioneers of the State of Washington, whose privations noblyborne, whose heroic labors timely performed, and whose patrioticdevotion to the Republic, gave Washington as a star of constantlyincreasing brilliancy to the Union—this book is gratefully dedicated.
CONTENTS.
| I. | My Autobiography. |
| II. | Incidents in crossing the Plains in 1852. |
| III. | Pen sketches of events, amusing, interestingand instructive of a Pioneer's life on the PacificCoast, extending over fifty-six years. |
| IV. | Indian civilization, its true methods, its difficulties. |
| V. | Indian customs, legends, logic and philosophy oflife. |
| VI. | Religion and reasons for some fundamentaldoctrines. |
| VII. | Official life and some incidents connected therewith. |
| VIII. | Game animals and birds of the State of Washington. |
| IX. | A few public addresses delivered by me. |
| X. | The result of Pioneer patriotism and energy. |
Introduction
I have often been requested by my friends to write a sketch book,containing, first, my autobiography, with some of the incidents of alife already numbering eighty years and more; secondly, some of theaddresses and papers made by me as a private citizen or public official;and, thirdly, some of the impressions, solemn, ludicrous and otherwise,made upon me in my contact with all the forms of the genus homo,principally on the Pacific Coast, where I have resided since 1852—inOregon for seventeen years; in Seattle, Washington, thirty-eight years,plus the dimming future.
I have finally concluded to undertake the delicate task. If it is evercompleted and printed, I fondly