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Two conflicting perspectives exist for the early history of Seattle. There is what one might call the "establishment" view, which favors the centrality of the Denny Party (generally the Denny, Mercer, Terry, and Boren families), and Henry Yesler . A second, less didactic view, advanced particularly by historian Bill Speidel , sees David Swinson "Doc" Maynard as a key figure, perhaps ''the'' key figure. In the late nineteenth century, when Seattle had become a thriving town, several members of the Denny Party still survived; they and many of their descendants were in local positions of power and influence. Maynard was about ten years older and died relatively young, so he was not around to make his own case. Because the Denny Party were generally conservative Methodist s and Maynard was, among other things, a drinker who lived with both his wife and an ex-wife and felt that well-run Prostitution could be a healthy part of a city's economy, he was not on the best of terms with what became the Seattle Establishment, and Maynard was nearly written out of the city's history until Speidel's research in the 1960s and 1970s. FOUNDING See Also: Duwamish (tribe) Seattle before the city What is now Seattle has been inhabited since at least the end of the last Glacial Period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago). Archaeological excavations at what is now called West Point in Discovery Park , Magnolia confirm settlement within the current city for at least 4,000 years and probably much longer. ''hah-choo-AHBSH'' or ''hah-chu-AHBSH''. (3) For a pronunciation brief, see the Footnote in Duwamish (tribe) . of the (Skagit-Nisqually) Lushootseed Coast Salish Native American Nations occupied at least 17 villages in the mid-1850s (13 within what are now the city limits),(1) After historical epidemiology 62% losses due to introduced diseases. (1.1)Boyd living in some 93 permanent Longhouse s (''khwaac'ál'al'') along the lower Duwamish River, Elliott Bay , Salmon Bay , Portage Bay , Lake Washington within what is now Seattle, as well as Lake Sammamish , and the Duwamish , Black , and Cedar River s in what is now metropolitan Seattle.(1) |
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