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In The Oregon Country Out Doors In Oregon Washington And Califo

"What is the most pronounced difference between East and West?" A Bostonian once asked me that. I was East after a year or two of westerning, and he seemed to think it would be easy enough to answer off-hand. But for the life of me I could find no fit reply. For a time that is...

Chapters

12. Chapter 12

"Avarice, O Boston Tyee," quoth Hamitchou, studying me with dusky eyes, "is a mighty passion. Now, be it known unto thee that we Indians anciently used not metals nor the money...

13. Chapter 13

A lover of the Californian Sierra reasonably would be expected to originate such a philosophy. For while all mountains approach perfection, existence in the California cordiller...

3. Chapter 3

The nomenclature of the Northwest suffered at the hands of its English-speaking discoverers, for much that was fair to the ear in the Indian names has been replaced with dreary...

4. Chapter 4

It was a very "typical" stagecoach. That is, it was typical of the style Broadway would have expected in the production of a _Girl of the Golden West_ or _The Great Divide_. Ver...

10. Chapter 10

In the hilly residential section of Tacoma is a studio-workshop. On a certain September morning its inward appearance indicated the recent passage of a tornado--a human tornado...

8. Chapter 8

Once we reached a certain ranger station after sundown. It was the end of a long trail day, our horses were tired, we were fagged, and darkness was hard upon us. The only good g...

7. Chapter 7

not because of the financial fruitfulness the verse implies, but rather because it was a land where outdoor pleasures are readily accessible. The logical outcome of land seeking...

6. Chapter 6

He is a young man; at least, his eyes are young. His "woman" is with him and their three kiddies, the tiniest asleep in her mother's lap, with the dust caked about her wet baby...

9. Chapter 9

There are larger rivers than the Deschutes, and wilder, and some better for the canoe; many shelter more ducks, and a few more trout than does Oregon's "River of Falls." But if...

2. Chapter 2

Oregon--the old Oregon Territory of yesterday and the State of to-day--is our very own. It was neither bought, borrowed, nor stolen from another nation. It is of the United Stat...

5. Chapter 5

When the West moves, it moves quickly. The map of Oregon had long shown a huge area without the line of a single railroad crossing it. This railless land was Central Oregon, the...

1. Chapter 1

"What is the most pronounced difference between East and West?" A Bostonian once asked me that. I was East after a year or two of westerning, and he seemed to think it would be...

11. Chapter 11

Less than fifty years ago what is now Seattle numbered scarce a thousand inhabitants, and the present city of Tacoma was a cluster of shacks about a sawmill. Puget Sound, to-day...