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Find what you need to plan the perfect trip to Washington State from the 
official website by Washington State Tourism.
Experience Washington Official Website of Washington State Tourism

Washington information resource links to state homepage, symbols, flags, 
maps, constitutions, representitives, songs, birds, flowers, trees.
Washington State Symbols Capital Constitution Flags Maps Song

Frequently requested statistics for Washington. ... Source U.S. Census 
Bureau: State and County QuickFacts. Data derived from Population ...
Washington QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

Explore the museum's Hall of Washington History and discover a new view of 
the past, from frontier towns to modern technology. Includes events, 
programs ...
http://www.wshs.org/

Includes all the major Cascade Range Volcanoes, plus more; Volcanoes of 
Lewis and Clark -- includes sightings of three Washington State Volcanoes ...
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Washington/framework.html

Here you'll find information on Washington's rivers and streams. ... 
stations in the state, many of which form the backbone of flood-warning 
systems. ...
http://wa.water.usgs.gov

Washington State Geologic Maps and LANDSAT images.
http://wa_geology.home.comcast.net

Economy of Washington including Washington agriculuture, manufacturing, and 
service industries.
http://www.netstate.com/economy/wa_economy.htm

Apple varieties, history of the association, health and nutrition 
information, facts, kids' section, recipes, grower profiles, map of growing 
regions
http://www.bestapples.com/

Keep Washington Wildlife Areas Managed for Wildlife !
http://www.WesternWatersheds.org

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is the state leader in 
providing the science that will make wild salmon recovery a reality.
http://wdfw.wa.gov/recovery.htm

NW Indian They were hunters and gatherers. The tribes that lived right on 
the coast, ate mainly food from the sea. They ate salmon, seals, sea otters
http://www.mle.matsuk12.us/american-natives/nw/nw.html

This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs 
and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw

Questions and Answers about the Plateau Indians ... The Wellpinit School 
District serves ALL students on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
http://www.wellpinit.wednet.edu/sal-qa/qa.php

The daily life and culture of the Plateau Indians was very interesting ... 
The Plateau Indians had special celebrations for their children as they grew 
up.
The Plateau Indians live in the area between the Cascade Mountains and the Rocky Mountains and north of the Great Basin.

The following letter is from the original account of Mary Marsh Cason's 
version of the Whitman Massacre. The copy of which I'm provided is by no 
stretch of ...
http://gesswhoto.com/whitman.html

Sketch of the Whitman Compound by a survivor of the massacre .... Two years 
after the attack, Tiloukaikt and several others involved in the Whitman 
Massacre
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/whitman.htm

In the early 19th century, the missionaries were the first white men to 
settle in the Pacific Northwest. They came to Christianize
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/old_west/92928

Below we published an interesting letter written in 1855 by Miss Elizabeth 
Sager , a cousin of C.A. Sager of Promise City and E.M. Sager south of 
town. ...
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wawallaw/oregon.html

Catherine Sager Pringle, Elizabeth Sager Helm, and Matilda Sager Delaney. 
Taken at the 50th anniversary commemoration, November 1897.
http://www.nps.gov/whmi/educate/whmitg/3whmi4.htm

Across the Plains in 1844. by Catherine Sager Pringle (c. 1860). Contents 
Chapter I - On the Plains in 1844 � Chapter II - Waiilatpu Massacre, 1847
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/two/sager1.htm

Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were both from upstate New York. Narcissa 
Prentiss was born in 1808 in Prattsburgh, New York, into a devout 
Presbyterian family.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/whitman.htm

The Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman 1836 - 1847. [Show Table of 
Contents]. ON BOARD STEAMBOAT SIAM March 15, 1836. Dear, Dear Mother: ...
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/two/whitman1.htm

DIARIES AND JOURNALS OF NARCISSA WHITMAN 1836. ON BOARD STEAMBOAT SIAM March 
15, 1836. Dear, Dear Mother: Your proposal concerning keeping a diary as 
I ...
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/two/whitman1.htm

Official National Park Service expanded site with an extensive history of 
the fort. Located in Vancouver, WA.
http://www.nps.gov/fova/

The Treaty Trail: Isaac Stevens' Treaty Councils 1854-1856. � Flash Movie � 
Site Introduction. � Tribal Homelands ... Washington State History Museum
http://stories.washingtonhistory.org/TreatyTrail/teaching/artifact-encounter.htm

Washington Secretary of State. Keywords. Washington History ... Native 
Americans: Treaties: Medicine Creek Treaty, 1854 � Native Americans: Treaties
http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx

Welcome to Washington State Governor's Office of Indian Affairs. ... 
Treaties. What this image is. Map Link to map � Access Washington ...
http://www.goia.wa.gov/Treaties/Treaties.htm

March 18, 1831. This is the complete text of ... Boxberger, Daniel L. 
Handbook of Western Washington Indian Treaties.
http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Resources/Curriculum/Treaties/Treaties%20VII.html

History of Treaty Making and Reservations on the Olympic Peninsula ... 
sailed into the waters off the coast of what is now the state of Washington,
http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Resources/Curriculum/Treaties/Treaties%20Main.html

Welcome to Washington State Governor's Office of Indian Affairs. ... 
Treaties. What this image is. Map Link to map � Access Washington
http://www.goia.wa.gov/Treaties/Treaties.htm

The Treaty of Point No Point was signed on January 26, 1855, ..... Major 
Support for HistoryLink.org Provided By: The State of Washington
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5637

The �Pig War�, as the confrontation on San Juan Island came to be called, 
had its origin in the Anglo-American dispute over possession of the Oregon 
Country
http://www.nps.gov/sajh/Pig_War_new.htm

Dec 17, 2007 ... James Douglas and; Capt. Geoffrey Phipps Hornby, RN. It was 
through these four that the Pig War crisis unfolded in July 1859.
http://www.nps.gov/sajh/historyculture/the-pig-war.htm

Mother Joseph of the Sisters of Providence gained posthumous recognition in 
1980, when the U.S. Senate accepted her statue, a gift from Washington 
state, ...
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=pf_output.cfm&file_id=5483

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