Squak Valley, A Tale of Old Issaquah
By Bessie Wilson Craine, $15 (Tax Included)

2002 Edition: Now contains family tree charts, photographs, footnotes, and a full index.

Bessie Wilson Craine arrived here in the Squak valley in 1885, when she was three years old.  Over time, she wrote down her experiences growing up in the area.  The final handwritten manuscript was complete in 1963, when she was in her 80's.  The original 69 page paperback edition was published by the Issaquah Historical Society in 1983, with a forward by Harriet Fish.

From a review by Lucile McDonald, Seattle Times

Small Book on Issaquah History is a Gem

For those who delight in collecting memorabilia of the Puget Sound country here is a little gem, a complete story of the childhood and young womanhood of a resident of Issaquah in its early days.

In describing her own life the author managed to include a chronicle of the community's development, from a few isolated homesteads to a busy coal-mining town.

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