Pioneer Families Moab Newman Lake Thompson Creek WA Peggy Cunningham PB Yellow

Condition

LIKE NEW local-history trade paperback. Glossy yellow pictorial covers show minimal signs of handling at the edges and corners. Page edges are clean, and the interior text, maps, and black-and-white photographs are bright, legible, and unmarked, with a tight binding and no loose or missing pages.

Description

Title: Pioneer Families of Moab, Newman Lake, and Thompson Creek, Washington: Family Histories of the Pioneers Who Settled This Area 1880–1940.

Author/Compiler: Peggy Laughlin Cunningham; editor and copyright holder: Marilyn Starr Cunningham; publisher: Pioneer Press for Pioneer Pages; format: 2002 English-language trade paperback printed in Canada.

Genre/Topics: genealogy and family history, local and regional history, Pacific Northwest settlement, community development, pioneer homesteads, and biographical sketches of early residents in eastern Washington.

Content overview: gathers detailed family histories and narratives of the pioneers who settled the Moab, Newman Lake, and Thompson Creek areas between 1880 and 1940, documenting homesteads, farms, businesses, schools, churches, and civic life; includes accounts of transportation links, such as the Northern Pacific train station and early post offices, and profiles of residents whose lives helped shape these communities.

Organization and layout: structured as a series of locality-based chapters and surname-arranged family sketches, with sections devoted to specific households and institutions; examples visible in the text include entries for William Newman and Elizabeth Barnaby, John A. and Anna Munson, and a narrative on the Moab Post Office, each accompanied by contextual historical information.

Illustrations: extensively illustrated with archival black-and-white photographs and reproduced maps, including images of homesteads, early schools, community gatherings, and lakeside scenes; map excerpts such as a 1904 Newman Lake map appear alongside the text to situate families geographically.

Physical details: medium-format softcover with a yellow map-based background design; the front cover features a historic photograph of the Krum Homestead (1909) and the subtitle Moab, Newman Lake, & Thompson Creek, Washington, while the back cover carries a photograph of Charley Krum in front of the Laughlin Homestead (1908) along with descriptive copy about the three communities.

Features and audience: an illustrated local-history and genealogy reference aimed at adult readers, descendants of families from Moab, Newman Lake, and Thompson Creek, regional historians, and researchers interested in Pacific Northwest pioneer life.

Bibliographic details: copyright 2002 by Marilyn Starr Cunningham; Library of Congress Card Number: 2002107587; ISBN: 1-930580-37-1; EAN: 9781930580374; original printed U.S. cover price $19.50.

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