May “Library jewel” #1: Ranald MacDonald
(Image courtesy of Washington State Library) In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re kicking off the May edition of our “State Library jewels” blog series by featuring an item from the library’s Rare Publications Collection with an Asian subject matter: a collection of books about Ranald MacDonald (no Big Mac jokes, please), the son of Hudson’s Bay Company Chief Trader Archibald MacDonald and Koale’zoa, the daughter of Chinook Chief Concomly. As a boy, Ranald encountered three…