Chronology is only a row of hooks to hang the garments of the past upon, else they may fall together in a confused heap. Not having a full line of such supports on which to hang the weaving of my thoughts--I simply overturn my Indian basket of chips picked up after "Blazing the Way," they being merely bits of beginnings in the Northwest. E. I. DENNY. * * * * * NOTE--The poem referred to on page 144 will appear in another work.--AUTHOR. INDEX PART I--THE GREAT MARCH CHAPTER PAGE I. CROSSING THE PLAINS 17 II. DOWN THE COLUMBIA IN '51 34 III. THE SETTLEMENT AT ALKI 41 IV. FOUNDING OF SEATTLE AND INDIAN WAR 63 V. THE MURDER OF McCORMICK 96 VI. KILLING COUGARS 105 VII. PIONEER CHILD LIFE 113 VIII. MARCHING EXPERIENCES OF ESTHER CHAMBERS 151 IX. AN OLYMPIA WOMAN'S TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS IN 1851 168 X. CAPTAIN HENRY ROEDER ON THE TRAIL 177 PART II--MEN, WOMEN AND ADVENTURES I. SONG OF THE PIONEERS 182 II. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND SKETCHES, JOHN DENNY, SARAH LATIMER DENNY 186 III. DAVID THOMAS DENNY 203 IV. THE FIRST WEDDING ON ELLIOT BAY 257 V. LOUISA BOREN DENNY 272 V_a_ MADGE DECATUR DENNY 288 V_b_ ANNA LOUISA DENNY 294 V_c_ WILLIAM RICHARD BOREN 300 VI. ARTHUR A. DENNY, MARY A. DENNY 305 VII. HENRY VAN ASSELT OF DUWAMISH 320 VIII. THOMAS MERCER 329 IX. DR. HENRY A. SMITH, THE BRILLIANT WRITER 344 X. FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS 358 PART III--INDIAN LIFE AND SETTLERS' BEGINNINGS