Caroline Leighton on the Forty-Nine

ID: 4925 ~ Source: Reading from Caroline C. Leighton's Life at Puget Sound, with sketches of travel in Washington territory, British Columbia, Oregon, and California, 1865-1881, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1884; Music courtesy of Unheard Music Concepts and the Free Music Archive. ~ Creator: Logan Camporeale
This file appears in: The Steamboat Forty-Nine

Caroline Leighton, a teacher and author born in Boston, visited the Pacific Northwest in the 1860s. She boarded the steamboat Forty-Nine headed for British Columbia and wrote eloquently about her experience. This is a reading from her book.

This file appears in: The Steamboat Forty-Nine

By Logan Camporeale
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