LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | ||
| Gretchen at the Potlatch Feast | E.J. Austen | [Frontispiece] |
| Indians spearing fish at Salmon Falls | [16] | |
| "Here were mountains grander than Olympus." The North Puyallup Glacier, Mount Tacoma | [28] | |
| In the midst of this interview Mrs. Woods appeared at the door of the cabin. | A.E. Pope | [72] |
| The eagle soared away in the blue heavens, and the flag streamed after him in his talon | [84] | |
| The Mountain Lion | D. Carter Beard | [92] |
| An Indian village on the Columbia | [130] | |
| Afar Loomed Mount Hood | [135] | |
| A castellated crag arose solitary and solemn | [142] | |
| At the Cascades of the Columbia | [183] | |
| Multnomah Falls in earlier years | Redrawn by Walter C. Greenough | [205] |
| The old chief stood stoical and silent. | E.J. Austen | [209] |
| Middle block-house at the Cascades | [242] |
THE LOG SCHOOL-HOUSE ON THE COLUMBIA.
CHAPTER I.
GRETCHEN'S VIOLIN.
An elderly woman and a German girl were walking along the old Indian trail that led from the northern mountains to the Columbia River. The river was at this time commonly called the Oregon, as in Bryant's poem:
"Where rolls the Oregon,
And no sound is heard save its own dashings."
The girl had a light figure, a fair, open face, and a high forehead with width in the region of ideality, and she carried under her arm a long black case in which was a violin. The woman had lived in one of the valleys of the Oregon for several years, but the German girl had recently arrived in one of the colonies that had lately come to the territory under the missionary agency of the Rev. Jason Lee.