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Klallam Indian Chief Chet-ze-moka was about forty years old when the first white settlers came to Port Townsend, He seems to have adjusted quickly to the presence of the white man and in the early 1850's journeyed to San Francisco, where he first met James G. Swan. Swan showed him around the city and forever impressed the chief with the number and strength of the white man. Chet-ze-moka sent Swan a gift of appreciation and invited him to Port Townsend, In 1859 when Swan visited the area, the two met again and became firmer friends. Swan seems to have been duly impressed with the Klallam chief. in 1859 he wrote in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin that Chet-ze-moka, nicknamed Duke of York by the early white settlers, was "an intelligent and very reliable Indian, formerly much addicted to whiskey drinking... he has been very sober."

Though he was to get his good and bad press, Chet-ze-moka was much respected by the whites for adjusting to the changing times. Today all that remains of him are some often published photographs showing him in rather ludicrous Boston Man garb, a collection of conflicting historical records, and a wonderful park named in his honor.
­From the book, "City of Dreams" by Peter Simpson

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