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Contents

Admission and Acknowledgments

SECTION I—The Last Playground

I What Is the Pacific Northwest?

II Historical Background

Looking Back

Explorers By Boat

The River of Fable That Really Existed

Explorers on Foot

Furs

Faiths

Homemakers

III The Seasons

IV Where to Play

SECTION II—SOME PLACES AND PEOPLE

I Cow Country

II FarewellBend

III Among the Basques with a Scotchman

IV Burns

V John Day Country

VI Gold, Uncivic Potatoes, and a Centenarian

VII Enterprise—A Lost Hat—The Canyon of Hell

VIII Pendleton Round-up

IX Grande Ronde Country: An American Family

X En Route: In Sheep Country

XI Walla Walla: Missionaries, Vigilantes, and a Rawhide Railroad

XII Yakima Valley: Two Towns, Irrigation, and Indians

XIII Apple Valleys

XIV Beautiful Deep Water

XV Grand Coulee Dam: Man’s Biggest Job to Date

SECTION III—CITIES AS SYMBOLS

I Seattle

II Portland

III Spokane

IV Tacoma

SECTION IV—MORE PLACES AND PEOPLE

I The Islands and the Land To and From

II Spirit Dancing

III Olympic Peninsula: Big Trees—Sacred Elk— Ghost Towns

IV Capital Towns

Olympia

Salem

V River of the West

VI Oregon Coast

VII Southern Oregon: Pelicans, Pears, Spade Beards, and Cavemen

SECTION V—HIGHLIGHTS ON THE LAST HORIZON

I Tales, Tall and Small

II Paul Bunyan’s Larder

III The Jumping-off Place

Reading List

Note from the Publisher