ke-koosh

Updated: May 18, 2025

These Indians had a vague story that white men were coming to trade among them; and they often spoke of two great men named Ke-Koosh and Jacquean, who gave them tobacco, and smoked with them. Jacquean, they said, had a house somewhere upon the great river.

Washington Irving - Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains