Two Years in Oregon

Personal reasons for coming to Oregon--Plans of colonizing--Who came--Who have returned--Who remain--Bowie-knives and revolvers--A sheriff in danger--No tragedy--Our landing at...

Where we live--Snow-peaks and distant prospects--Forest-fires--The Coast Mountains and Mary's Peak--Sunset in Oregon--Farmhouses: the log-cabin, the box-house, the frame-house--...

The land-office; its object and functionaries--How to find your land--Section 33--The great conflagration--The survivors of the fire--The burnt timber and the brush--The clearin...

A spring ride in Oregon--The start--The equipment--Horses and saddlery--Packs--The roadside--Bird fellow-travelers--Snakes--The nearest farm--Bees--The great pasture--The poison...

Hay-harvest--Timothy-grass--Permanent pasture--Hay-making by express--The mower and reaper--Hay-stacks as novelties-- Wheat-harvest--Thrashing--The "thrashing crowd"--"Headers"...

The farmer's sports and pastimes--Deer-hunting tales--A roadside yarn--Still-hunting--Hunting with hounds--An early morning's sport--Elk--The pursuit--The kill--Camp on Beaver C...

Up to the Cascades--Farming by happy-go-lucky--The foot-hills--Sweet Home Valley--Its name, and how deserved and proved--The road by the Santiam--Eastward and upward--Timber--Lo...

Indian fair at Brownsville--Ponies--The lasso--Breaking-in--The purchase--"Bucking" extraordinary--Sheep-farming in Eastern Oregon-- Merinos--The sheep-herder--Muttons for compa...

The trail to the Siletz Reserve--Rock Creek--Isolation--Getting a road--The surveying-party--Entrance at last--Road-making--Hut-building in the wilds--What will he do with it?--...

The Indians at home--The reservation--The Upper Farm--Log-cabins-- Women must work while men will play--The agency--The boarding-house --Sunday on the reservation--Indian Sun da...

The Legislative Assembly--The Governor--His duties--Payment of the members--Aspect of the city; the Legislature in session--The lobbyist--How bills pass--How bills do not pass--...

The "Web-foot State"--Average rainfall in various parts--The rainy days in 1879 and 1880--Temperature--Seasons--Accounts and figures from three points--Afternoon sea-breezes--A...

History of Oregon--First discoverers--Changes of government-- Recognition as a Territory--Entrance as a State--Individual histories--"Jottings"--"Sitting around"--A pioneer in B...

State and county elections--The Chinese question--Chinese house-servants--Washermen--Laborers--A large camp--Supper--Chinese trading--The scissors--Cost of Chinese labor--Its re...

Industries other than farming--Iron-ores--Coal--Coos Bay mines-- Seattle mines--Other deposits--Lead and copper--Limestone--Marbles-- Gold, where found and worked--Silver, where...

Eastern Oregon--Going "east of the mountains"--Its attractions-- Encroaching sheep--First experiments in agriculture and planting-- General description of Eastern Oregon--Bounda...

Southern Oregon--Its boundaries--The western counties--Population-- Ports--Rogue River--Coos Bay--Coal--Lumber--Practicable railroad routes--The harbor--Shifting and blowing san...

The towns--Approach to Oregon--The steamers--The Columbia entrance-- Astoria--Its situation, industries, development--Salmon--Shipping-- Loading and discharging cargo--Up the Co...

The transportation question--Its importance--Present legal position --Oregon Railway and Navigation Committee's general report--That company--Its ocean-going steamers--Their tra...

Emigration to Oregon--Who should not come--Free advice and no fees--English emigrants--Farmers--Haste to be rich--Quoted experiences--Cost and ways of coming--Sea-routes--Railro...

Personal reasons for coming to Oregon--Plans of colonizing--Who came--Who have returned--Who remain--Bowie-knives and revolvers--A sheriff in danger--No tragedy--Our landing at...

Where we live--Snow-peaks and distant prospects--Forest-fires--The Coast Mountains and Mary's Peak--Sunset in Oregon--Farmhouses: the log-cabin, the box-house, the frame-house--...

The land-office; its object and functionaries--How to find your land--Section 33--The great conflagration--The survivors of the fire--The burnt timber and the brush--The clearin...

A spring ride in Oregon--The start--The equipment--Horses and saddlery--Packs--The roadside--Bird fellow-travelers--Snakes--The nearest farm--Bees--The great pasture--The poison...

Hay-harvest--Timothy-grass--Permanent pasture--Hay-making by express-- The mower and reaper--Hay-stacks as novelties--Wheat-harvest--Thrashing --The "thrashing crowd"--"Headers"...

The farmer's sports and pastimes--Deer-hunting tales--A roadside yarn-- Still-hunting--Hunting with hounds--An early morning's sport--Elk--The pursuit--The kill--Camp on Beaver...

I have read comments on the scarcity of birds in America. This may be true in some parts; here, in Oregon, we have abundance, except of singing-birds. Of these last the meadow-l...

Up to the Cascades--Farming by happy-go-lucky--The foot-hills--Sweet Home Valley--Its name, and how deserved and proved--The road by the Santiam--Eastward and upward--Timber--Lo...

Indian fair at Brownsville--Ponies--The lasso--Breaking-in--The purchase--"Bucking" extraordinary--Sheep-farming in Eastern Oregon-- Merinos--The sheep-herder--Muttons for compa...

The trail to the Siletz Reserve--Rock Creek--Isolation--Getting a road--The surveying-party--Entrance at last--Road-making--Hut-building in the wilds--What will he do with it?--...

The Indians at home--The reservation--The Upper Farm--Log-cabins-- Women must work while men will play--The agency--The boarding-house --Sunday on the reservation--Indian Sunday...

The Legislative Assembly--The Governor--His duties--Payment of the members--Aspect of the city; the Legislature in session--The lobbyist --How bills pass--How bills do not pass-...

To make this book useful, I must run the risk of making it tedious by some account of the land system relating to the preemption and homestead laws applicable to the public land...

The "Web-foot State"--Average rainfall in various parts--The rainy days in 1879 and 1880--Temperature--Seasons--Accounts and figures from three points--Afternoon sea-breezes--A...

About two miles from the city of Salem, the capital of the State, are the fair-grounds. Round a large inclosure of some fifteen acres of grass-land there runs a belt of oak-wood...

History of Oregon--First discoverers--Changes of government--Recognition as a Territory--Entrance as a State--Individual histories--"Jottings"-- "Sitting around"--A pioneer in B...

State and county elections--The Chinese question--Chinese house-servants--Washermen--Laborers--A large camp-Supper-- Chinese trading--The scissors--Cost of Chinese labor--Its re...

Life in these country towns possesses some features strange to a new-comer. Every family, almost without exception, is allied with some church organization. The association of s...

Industries other than farming--Iron-ores--Coal--Coos Bay mines-- Seattle mines--Other deposits--Lead and copper--Limestone--Marbles --Gold, where found and worked--Silver, where...

Eastern Oregon--Going "east of the mountains"--Its attractions-- Encroaching sheep--First experiments in agriculture and planting --General description of Eastern Oregon--Bounda...

Southern Oregon--Its boundaries--The western counties--Population--Ports --Rogue River--Coos Bay--Coal--Lumber--Practicable railroad routes--The harbor--Shifting and blowing san...

The towns--Approach to Oregon--The steamers--The Columbia entrance-- Astoria--Its situation, industries, development--Salmon--Shipping-- Loading and discharging cargo--Up the Co...

The transportation question--Its importance--Present legal position-- Oregon Railway and Navigation Committee's general report--That company --Its ocean-going steamers--Their tr...

Emigration to Oregon--Who should not come--Free advice and no fees-- English emigrants--Farmers--Haste to be rich--Quoted experiences--Cost and ways of coming--Sea-routes--Railr...