Geographical names - N-Q - Transcript.
Date
1951
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UNKNOWN
Abstract
"Naches, an Indian name used for a pass through the Cascade Range, for a river, town, canyon and valley. The spelling has assumed such forms as Nachese, in Theodore Wintorhop's Canoe and Saddle, as Wachess by J. Patton Anderson in James G. Swan's Northwest Coast, 1857, as Nahcheess on James Tilton's Map of Part of Washington Territory in 1859. The form Naches in present use first appeared on Preston's Map of Pregon and Washington West of the Cascade Mountains 1856."
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