Skagit County, Washington (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"You oughta hear old Burnie Byers talk up that talk up in the Skagit country, Ray you just gotta go up there."

"In nineteen-fifty-two I first went into that Skagit country, hitched from Frisco to Seattle and then in, with a beard just started and a bare shaved head—"

"“Ray, that Skagit country where you're going is the greatest place in America, that snaky river running back through gorges and into its own unpeopled watershed…”"