E-text prepared by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 35288-h.htm or 35288-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35288/pg35288-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35288/35288-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/twoyearsinoregon00nashrich [Illustration: Anchorage in Yaquina Bay.] TWO YEARS IN OREGON. by WALLIS NASH, Author of "Oregon, There and Back in 1877." Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains on whose barren breast The lab'ring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. L'Allegro. Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown; With that wild wheel we go not up or down; Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great; Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands; Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands; For man is man and master of his fate. Tennyson. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street. 1882. Copyright by D. Appleton and Company 1881. I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY FATHER, WHO, THOUGH SEVERED FROM US BY LAND AND OCEAN, YET LIVES WITH US IN SPIRIT. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. It is my grateful task to recognize the marked kindness with which my modest volume has been received by the public and the press. It is rare that a second edition of a work of the kind should be called for within three months of the first issue, and still more rare that, out of a vast number of reviews by the leading journals all over the country, but one newspaper, and that the one I deemed it my duty to the State of Oregon to denounce (on page 216), has found aught but words of commendation. I desire also to tender my apologies to the esteemed Roman Catholic Archbishop, and to the Sisters of Charity of Portland, for the error on my part in ascribing to Bishop Morris, of the Episcopal Church, the credit of St. Vincent's Hospital. I ought not to have forgotten to notice the Good Samaritan Hospital and Orphanage founded by Bishop Morris. A single remark should be added about the price or value given, on page 70, for seed-wheat as an element of the cost of the crop raised from it.