Road-making as a War Measure — A Pass Required — A Company Organized — They Proceed to Rogue River — Whence they Continue Eastward and Cross the Cascade Range into the Humboldt Valley - They Proceed to Fort Hall — Hastings and his Cut-off — Immigration of 1846 — Applegate's Cut-off — J. Q. Thornton, his Book and his Vindictiveness — Sufferings of the Emigrants by the New Route — Comments of the Settlers on the Southern Route — Biographical Notices

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Social Efforts of the Crew of the 'Modeste' — First Theatrical Entertainments — First American Newspaper on the Pacific Coast — A Military Company - Arrival in the Sound of H. B. M. Ship 'Fisgard' — President Polk's Message — Arrival of the U. S. Schooner 'Shark' — Horse-racing — Howison on the Situation — Wreck of the 'Shark'— A Flag and Guns for Oregon — Passage of the Notice Bill — Overland Railway — The Boundary Determined — How Tidings of the Treaty were Received

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Waiting for a Territorial Government— The Question of a Delegate to Washington — Attempts to Provide for the Ejectment of British Subjects from their Land— Legislative Proceedings— Memorial to Congress — Public Reproof to Trespassers — Reelection of Abernethy — Douglas' Bill for Establishing a Territory, and its Failure — Action of the People — Private Delegate to Congress — Biographical Notices — The Immigration of 1847

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Savages as a Handiwork of the Creator — They might have been Better Made - But They are not so much Worse than White Men, who are Bad Enough — Rival Claimants for the Rewards to Follow their Conversion Portentous Clouds Hanging over Marcus Whitman — Strange He cannot See the Darkening Sky — The Natives Maddened by the White Man's Diseases, and by the Coming-in of so Many to Take from Them their Lands— Attitude of Catholics and Protestants — Rival Roads to Heaven The Savages Prefer their own Way — And Thereupon They Perpetrate a most Horrible Deed

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