Hill and Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the railroad and timber magnates Seattle political leaders Tommy Cahoon, the scalped Pullman conductor and George Bacon, the lively little mortgage agent.ĬLARE FISHBURN, former Whatcom high-school teacher, now housing agent ADA FISHBURN, Clare’s mother Rooney Fishburn, pioneer settler, his father (d. The Living is fiction, and all of its characters are imaginary save Chowitzit, the Lummi chief, and Hump Talem, the Nooksack chief James J. Jim Hill actually decided where to locate his Great Northern Railway terminus two years before the ’93 panic. Fairhaven expected the Great Northern Terminus, and it saw the most dramatic boom. Whatcom was the first settlement, and had the lumber mill Sehome had the coal mine. It was not until the events in this story had long passed-not until 1904-that they consolidated to form the city of Bellingham.

AFTERWARDS ABOUT THE AUTHOR PRAISE OTHER BOOKS BY ANNIE DILLARD COVER COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHERĪUTHOR’S NOTE Historically, there were four linked communities on Bellingham Bay-Whatcom, Old Bellingham, Sehome, and Fairhaven, which incorporated with each other in various combinations throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

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