PAGE The Old Ancestral Homestead, 1676 1 Mt. Tacoma 86 We Struck Rapid but Awkward Strokes 118 Mt. Rainier 139 Type of Blockhouse 185 Old Settlers Meeting 195 Group of Hop Houses 223 The Klondike Team 239 Ezra Meeker's Homestead 245 The Ivy-covered Cabin 246 Camp in Seattle 250 Dedicating Monument at Tenino, Washington 253 The First Boulder Marked 257 Baker City Monument 264 The Old Oregon Trail 270 Summit Monument 273 Devil's Gate 277 An Old Scout 284 Snap Shot on the Trail 290 The Lone Grave 294 Chimney Rock 295 Twist 298 Broad Street, New York 313 Jim 317 President Roosevelt on the Way to View the Team 317 President Viewing the Team 320 Addressing Colored School 323 At the Yukon Exposition 333 Pioneer Park, Puyallup 355 The Prairie Schooner on the White House Grounds 377 Dave and Dandy at the Panama Exposition 379 PREFACE Just why I should write a preface I know not, except that it is fashionable to do so, and yet in the present case there would seem a little explanation due the reader, who may cast his eye on the first chapter of this work. Indeed, the chapter, "Early Days in Indiana," may properly be termed an introduction, though quite intimately connected with the narrative that follows, yet not necessary to make a completed story of the trip to Oregon in the early fifties.