• A library of additional articles about the Karl and Minnie Pressentin family.
  
• The story of Karl and Minnie von Pressentin, and their family of strapping frontier boys. From Kemmerich and von Pressentin descendant Barbara Halliday. new address.
  

• Maurice Heitand's 1949 Mount Vernon Daily Herald story of when the Karl von Pressentin family arrived at Birdsview in 1878 from Manistee, Michigan, after stopping in Seattle. Includes description of very early Mount Vernon the year it began and a 1929 biography of Paul Pressentin. new address.
  
• A 1949 Mount Vernon Daily Herald interview with Paul Pressentin about Karl Pressentin, his family and his role in the group that crossed the Cascade pass in 1877 in search of gold. new address.
  
• John B. Neal's 1957 Skagit Valley Herald story of A.v. Pressentin's family of Sauk and Rockport, including sons Ed and Bert and the memories of his nephew Paul Pressentin. Includes the story of the sternwheeler captain who used slabs of bacon for fuel during a race on the Skagit River. new address.
  
• Charlotte D. Widrig's 1961 Seattle Times interview with Paul Pressentin about his family's life on their Birdsview homestead and his mother's role as a pioneer wife and widow. new address.
  

This photo of an Indian canoe near Marblemount was taken by Darius Kinsey of Sedro-Woolley and appeared in Sebring's Illustrated magazine in 1902. See the story about Otto Pressentin and how he reacted to the 1897 Skagit River flood when he was a schoolteacher in Marblemount.

      Back in about 1932 I was hiking up to cross the Cascade Pass and I was standing here by the river about where we are now [near Rockport] and all of a sudden I heard a really loud splash in the water, but I couldn't see anything clear on that overcast day. I wondered if it was one of those really large sturgeons we saw now and then. But pretty soon I saw a man stand up in the water and stride towards the shore. It was Otto Pressentin. After congratulating him, I asked him why he did it? He explained that he wanted to go to Marblemount and he was working a ways east of their home and the Pressentin Ferry Landing, so he just decided to dive in and swim over here instead. And that was not the only time he did it. One of the strongest men I've ever seen. —Howard Miller, 1998 interview.
      Yup I knew Otto Von, he was one powerful guy and ran the ferry across the river (from their ranch to the north shore). We forestry critters would watch in amazement as Otto cranked that big old cable wheel with one hand. He really had a fit when the army tried to run a tank retriever onto his ferry and the ferry did a glub, glub and sank. —Dr. Quentin C. Belles correspondence, Sedro-Woolley High School alumnus.

• Otto K. Pressentin, son of the pioneer Birdsview family and practitioner of the arts of survival from Washington to Alaska. A brief profile and his biography from 1906. We are moving all our original "stumpranchonline.com" features like this one to our new domain. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• 1958 article by Ray Jordan about Otto's early years in British Columbia as a fur trader, starting in 1911, and his initial trade with Indians who lived in the interior. The only man we know of who walked back and forth to Alaska. Twice, circa 1910. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• Otto K. Pressentin, Fur Trading, Part Two, another story by Ray Jordan that includes prices for goods and furs and details about Otto's later years in the province through 1921. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• In 1958, Otto Pressentin recalled the 1897 Skagit River flood that wiped out several downriver towns and how he helped save the books and bell from the Marblemount School where he was teaching.
  
  Stories about other members of the von Pressentin family
• Skagit Bill and Rona Pressentin, pioneers of Rockport, often called "salt of the earth. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• Chuck Pressentin's 1961 memories of his grandfather's California flood experiences before moving to Washington territory, and his earliest days here on the Skagit river near Birdsview. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• Obituary of Minnie von Pressentin, 1945, wife of 1877 Birdsview pioneer Karl von Pressentin. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• Profiles of Ed V. Pressentin, Rockport pioneer and merchant. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• Part 2: Obituaries and other articles about Ed V. Pressentin, Updated from Issue 31: and his father, A.V. Pressentin, Karl's younger brother. Includes a brief recap of the von Pressentins in Germany and in the U.S. This story has been re-posted with a newspaper story from 1907. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• Tom Benton's 1965 history of Rockport and the role that his von Pressentin ancestors played in its birth.
  
• Otto Pressentin's ten years in British Columbia, hiking on foot and hunting and fishing all over the province, and walking from Washington to Alaska
  

• All stories in the Upriver Section of the Journal, in the region from Utopia near Minkler Lake, all the way east to the North Cascades mountain range, sorted by town.
  
• The Rockport Hotel burns in 1952; includes a history of its owners and role in Rockport, including the builder, A.v. Pressentin, Hugo Bauman and Will D. Bob Jenkins. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• The story of Bessie Porter's memories of upper Skagit river history, including the von Pressentin family.
  
• The story of Klement party crosses Cascade Pass in the 1870s with Karl von Pressentin and others. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• The story of old Sauk City on the south shore of the Skagit River and the first business of A.v. Pressention.
  
• The story of the August Kemmerich family, 1870s pioneers of Birdsview and neighbors of the von Pressentins
  
• See Barbara Halliday's fine website with genealogy and photos of her Kemmerich and von Pressentin ancestors and their homesteads in Birdsview, north and south of the Skagit River.
  

• A 1945 biography of the Henry A. Martin family by Susanna Kinney and excerpts of their genealogy
  
• Obituaries of Henry A. Martin and his wife, Katherine O'Connor Martin
  
• Two interviews with Fred Martin, son of Henry and a state senator and administrator, one from 1979 in the Concrete Herald and another from 1959 in the Puget Sound Mail, which featured his remarks at the annual Historical Society picnic.
  
• How upriver Skagit Catholics organized their own services in private homes and then built their own mission church, led by Katharine and Henry Martin of Illabot creek. This story will soon be changed to this address. If neither file connects, please email us.
  
• Even More von Pressentin stories will be added over the next few years.