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--Lower Soda Springs--Different
vegetation--Upper Soda Springs--Mr. Keith--Our reception--His home and
surroundings--Emigrants on the road--The emigrant's dog--Off to the
Spokane--Whence they came--Where they were bound--Still eastward--
Fish Lake--Clear Lake--Fly-fishing in still water--The down slope
east--Lava-beds--Bunch-grass--The valleys in Eastern Oregon--Their
products--Wheat-growing there--Cattle-ranchers--Their home--Their
life--In the saddle and away--Branding-time--Hay for the winter--The
Malheur reservation--The Indians' outbreak--The building of the
road--When, how, and by whom built--The opening of the pass--The
history of the road--Squatters--The special agent from Washington--A
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