Editing White Salmon, Washington (section)

==History==
White Salmon was first settled in 1852 by Erastus Joslyn and his wife.<ref name=majors>{{Cite book|last=Majors|first=Harry M.|title=Exploring Washington|publisher=Van Winkle Publishing Co|year=1975|page=150|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoWrPQAACAAJ|isbn=978-0-918664-00-6}}</ref>  White Salmon was officially incorporated on June 3, 1907.

White Salmon was part of the home of the [[Klickitat people|Klickitat Tribe]], now a part of the Yakama Confederated Nations.  The Klickitat Tribe sold some land to the Joslyns. They were generally Native advocates for the time. The area was thrown open on October 31, 1858 for white settlement after the Klickitat and Yakama lost the fight for their homelands in the Yakama War.  Within the same year, the region was very rapidly and heavily settled by white immigrants making land claims. The Klickitat were forced to relocate to the Yakama Reservation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/WHQ/article/viewFile/6477/5551 |access-date=2023-10-27 |title=KLICKITAT COUNTY: INDIANS OF AND SETTLEMENT BY WHITES}}</ref>

White Salmon was named after the [[White Salmon River]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About the City of White Salmon|url=https://www.whitesalmonwa.gov/community/page/about-city-white-salmon-1|publisher=City Of White Salmon|access-date=October 6, 2024}}</ref>