From Copenhagen to Okanogan

From Copenhagen to Okanogan by Fries, U. E.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780832302084.

This is the epic story of Ulrick Fries, who as a boy of seventeen migrated fro Denmark to the United States and eventually settled in the Okanogan country of the Washing Territory in 1887. Ulrick himself tells the story of his pioneering, enriching it with many warm and human anecdotes form his varied jobs as railroad construction worker, steamboat deckhand, woodcutter, horseback mail carrier, homesteader, cattleman, and community leader. Many photos. 464 pages.