CONTENTS

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I.—"OUT WEST"[1]
II.—THE VALLEY OF CONTENT[9]
III.—THE LAND OF LEGENDS[19]
IV.—THE LAND OF MANY LEAGUES[37]
V.—HOW THE RAILROADS CAME[54]
VI.—THE HOME MAKERS[64]
VII.—ON OREGON TRAILS[76]
VIII.—UNCLE SAM'S FORESTS[90]
IX.—A CANOE ON THE DESCHUTES[105]
X.—OLYMPUS[116]
XI.—"THE GOD MOUNTAIN OF PUGET SOUND"[130]
XII.—A SUMMER IN THE SIERRAS[153]



ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Columbia River Valley and Mount Adams[Frontispiece]
Copyright, Gifford, Portland, Ore.
"The Man from Boisé Describes God's Country in Terms of Sagebrush and Brown Plains"[2]
"The Palouse Dweller Pictures Wheat Fields." The Grain Country of Eastern Washington[2]
From a photograph by Frank Palmer, Spokane, Wash.
A Western Mountaineering Club on the Hike[6]
From a photograph by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
Along the Willamette[12]
Mount Shasta[12]
From a photograph by Weister Co., Portland, Ore.
Mount Hood from Lost Lake[20]
Copyrighted photo by W. A. Raymond, Moro, Ore.
Natives Spearing Salmon on the Columbia[22]
Copyright 1901 by Benj. A. Gifford, The Dalles, Ore.
Coasting on Mount Hood[22]
From a photograph by Weister Co., Portland, Ore.
The Pacific[24]
Copyright 1910 by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
Along the Columbia. "Grotesque Rocks Rise Sheer from the River's Edge"[24]
Copyright 1910 by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
Celilo Falls on the Columbia[28]
Copyright 1902 by Benj. A. Gifford, The Dalles, Ore.
The North Abutment of the Bridge of the Gods[28]
Copyright 1902 by Benj. A. Gifford, The Dalles, Ore.
Where the Oregon Trunk Railway Crosses the Columbia. "The River Rolls Between Banks of Barrenness"[30]
Copyright 1912 by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
Columbia River. The Land of Indian Legends[30]
Copyright 1909 by Benj. A. Gifford, The Dalles, Ore.
The Dalles of the Columbia[32]
From a photograph by Weister Co., Portland, Ore.
Along the Columbia River. "A Region of Surpassing Scenery"[34]
Copyright 1912 by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
Central Oregon Travel in the Old Days[38]
A Central Oregon Freighter. "You will Find them everywhere in the Railless Land, the Freighters and their Teams"[38]
In the Dry-Farm Lands of Central Oregon. "Serried by Valleys, where the Gold of Sun and Grain, and Vagrant Cloud Shadows, Made Gorgeous Picturings"[42]
Crooked River Canyon, now Spanned by a Railroad Bridge[56]
In the Deschutes Canyon. "The River Winds Sinuously, Seeking First One, and then Another, Point of the Compass"[56]
Copyright 1911 by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
Along the Canyon of the Deschutes[62]
Copyright 1911 by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
Irrigation--"First, Parched Lands of Sage; then the Flow"[68]
Series Copyright 1909 by Asahel Curtis.
Irrigation--"Next, Water in a Master Ditch and Countless Man-made Rivulets between the Furrows"[68]
"It Was a very Typical Stagecoach"[70]
In the Homestead Country[70]
A Valley of Washington. "The Big Westland Smiles and Receives them All"[74]
From a photograph by Frank Palmer, Spokane, Wash.
A Trailside Dip in a Mountain Lake[78]
"Sliding down Snow-Fields Is Fun, though Chilly"[78]
On the Trail in the Highlands of the Cascades[80]
"A Sky Blue Lake Set like a Sapphire in an Emerald Mount"[80]
The Trails Are not all Dry-Shod[84]
"Our Trail Wound Beneath a Fairy Forest"[84]
An Oregon Trail[86]
From a Photograph by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
"Packing Up" at a Deserted Ranger Station[96]
Using the Forest Fire Telephone at a Ranger Station[96]
An Oregon Trout Stream[100]
From a Photograph by Raymond, Moro, Ore.
Canoeing and Duck Shooting may be Combined on the Deschutes[108]
On a Backwater of the Deschutes[108]
Along the Deschutes, the "River of Falls." "It Roars and Rushes, in White-Watered Cascades"[112]
Copyright 1911 By Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
"Canoeing is the most Satisfactory Method of Travel Extant"[118]
The Pack Train above Timber Line[118]
From a photo by Belmore Browne
"The Humes Glacier, over which we Went to Mount Olympus"[128]
"Our Nature-made Camp in Elwha Basin"[128]
The "God Mountain" of Puget Sound[132]
Copyright 1910 by L. G. Linkletter
"The Live Oaks of Berkeley's Campus"[156]
From a photograph by Wells Drury, Berkeley, Cal.
Looking across the Clouds to Mount Adams from the Flanks of Rainier[156]
Copyright 1909 by L. G. Linkletter
"We Gloried in the Sheer Mightiness of El Capitan"[158]
"A Vast Flower Garden Maintained Enticingly by Dame Nature"[160]
Copyright 1912 by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore.
Light and Shadow in Yosemite[160]
Sunrise at Hetch-Hetchy[164]
The Government Road that Leads to Mount Rainier[164]

In the Oregon Country