item: #1 of 12 id: 11223 author: Sinclair, Bertrand W. title: Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest date: None words: 86334 flesch: 88 summary: I can't see anything to it but for you to go on being Mrs. Jack Fyfe until such time as you get back to a normal poise. It dawned upon Stella Fyfe in the fullness of the season, when the first cool October days were upon them, and the lake shores flamed again with the red and yellow and umber of autumn, that she had been playing with fire--and that fire burns. keywords: abbey; away; benton; boat; brother; business; camp; charlie; cook; day; door; end; eyes; face; feeling; feet; fire; fyfe; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; jack; jack fyfe; kitchen; lake; lay; life; linda; line; look; lot; love; man; matter; men; mind; money; monohan; place; point; right; roaring; room; saw; sort; stella; stella benton; talk; things; thought; timber; time; voice; water; way; white; woman; woods; work cache: 11223.txt plain text: 11223.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 15188 author: Allen, Quincy title: The Outdoor Chums After Big Game; Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness date: None words: 46099 flesch: 89 summary: I never hoped they'd find you when I asked Mr. Frank to keep on the lookout, was what Hank was saying, as he turned a moist eye in the direction of the boy who had done so much to bring happiness to his home. Jerry knew Bluff as he did his own nature, and could dispute with him with energy, but in the case of Will he was always glad to drop the subject before he found he had burned his fingers. keywords: bluff; boys; camera; camp; chance; chums; course; elk; fellows; fire; frank; game; good; gun; hand; hank; head; home; jerry; little; look; mabie; man; reddy; right; things; think; thought; time; way cache: 15188.txt plain text: 15188.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 36435 author: Hyde, John title: Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad date: None words: 42646 flesch: 62 summary: Glaciers, which are great rivers or sheets of ice made from compacted snows, are functions as much of altitude as of high latitude; and both unite here, with an air charged with moisture from the warm Pacific waters, to make the grand glaciers which are to be seen in this bay. The line from Duluth to Brainerd follows, for many miles, the winding valley of the St. Louis river, through scenery for the most part stern and wild, yet not without an occasional suggestion of the gentler beauty of the far-off Youghiogheny. keywords: = =; alaska; bay; city; coast; columbia; country; day; distance; falls; feet; fish; glacier; good; grand; great; half; ice; indian; inland; lake; line; miles; mountain; new; north; northern; ocean; pacific; passage; place; point; railroad; range; river; scenery; sea; sitka; snow; sound; states; territory; time; tourist; town; valley; washington; waters; way; west; world; years cache: 36435.txt plain text: 36435.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 36999 author: Smith, Elliott title: The Land of Lure: A Story of the Columbia River Basin date: None words: 61493 flesch: 66 summary: Travis Gully took the pail, and leading two of his horses to the grassy spot, was allowing them to graze while the bucket was being filled when someone called to him: Bring the horses up here, Mr. Gully; there is lots of water. Upon being asked if he were Mr. Gully, and after answering in the affirmative, the elderly man took from his pocket a card which he handed to Travis Gully, who, glancing at it, recognized the name of the company to whom he had written. keywords: anderson; arrival; chapter; children; day; days; desert; family; father; grain; gully; gully home; hand; home; horses; house; ida; jack; jack norton; land; man; men; miles; miss; morning; mother; night; norton; party; place; return; school; snow; thought; time; travis gully; trip; village; wagon; water; way; wife; winter; work cache: 36999.txt plain text: 36999.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 37487 author: Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey) title: Boy Scouts in the Northwest; Or, Fighting Forest Fires date: None words: 50575 flesch: 89 summary: My name is Ernest Whipple; I'm looking for Mr. Ned Nestor. Ned and Jimmie may be in trouble somewhere. keywords: aeroplane; air; boy; boys; cavern; caƱon; face; fire; forest; frank; good; green; half; hand; jack; jimmie; left; lemon; machine; man; men; moment; ned; pat; place; plateau; reply; right; smoke; time; way; wind cache: 37487.txt plain text: 37487.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 43369 author: Nixon, Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson) title: How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon A True Romance of Patriotic Heroism Christian Devotion and Final Martyrdom date: None words: 75431 flesch: 69 summary: This little volume is not intended to be a history of Oregon missions or even a complete biography of Dr. Whitman. The Massacre at Waiilatpui 217-237 CHAPTER XII. Biographical--Dr. Whitman--Dr. McLoughlin 238-249 CHAPTER XIII. keywords: american; away; bay; board; chapter; children; company; country; day; days; doctor; england; english; fact; feet; fort; good; government; history; home; hudson; indians; journey; life; marcus whitman; men; miles; mission; missionaries; missionary; mountains; mrs; new; night; oregon; pacific; party; people; place; plains; posts; power; president; rev; ride; river; secretary; states; territory; time; treaty; united; united states; wagons; walla; war; washington; way; whitman; women; work; years cache: 43369.txt plain text: 43369.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 43589 author: Stevens, Hazard title: The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) date: None words: 168729 flesch: 67 summary: He took pains to meet the able men in Congress, and other men of talent and reputation who visited Washington. And this of an officer who had consumed a whole month in moving one hundred and eighty miles; lay another month in camp in the Yakima valley, making only the most cursory examinations; found the passes non-existent, or impracticable; reported the snow twenty to twenty-five feet deep on the credit of Indians; ignobly quailed at inclement weather and snows, which other men bravely faced and overcame; and generally condemned the country, and vilified the hardy pioneers. keywords: advance; animals; army; attack; battery; camp; captain; character; charge; chief; children; city; class; colonel; command; company; consequence; country; course; day; days; distance; duties; duty; enemy; engineer; evening; family; father; feet; field; fine; fire; force; fort; friends; general; good; governor; governor stevens; great; ground; half; head; high; home; house; indians; information; isaac; july; lake; lander; left; letter; lieutenant; lieutenant stevens; life; major; making; man; march; mason; mcclellan; men; mexico; miles; military; morning; mountains; new; newport; night; number; o'clock; officers; order; parties; party; pass; people; place; point; position; present; river; road; route; san; scott; service; smith; sound; stevens; strong; survey; time; train; troops; twiggs; valley; walla; war; washington; water; way; west; wife; work; worth; years; young cache: 43589.txt plain text: 43589.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 43590 author: Stevens, Hazard title: The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) date: None words: 179468 flesch: 64 summary: Bartlett, W.H.C., Professor, gives characteristics of General Stevens, i. 41. Bartow, General, ii. 435. Battery Island, ii. 381, 382. Bay Point, ii. 345, 347. Bayly, George, i. 260. Bear's Paw Mountains, i. 359-361. Beaufort, S.C., ii. 353; occupied by General Stevens, 355. Beaufort River, ii. 355, 358. keywords: action; army; attack; battery; battle; bay; blackfeet; brigade; camp; captain; chief; colonel; colonel stevens; columbia; column; command; companies; company; council; country; course; cuyuses; day; days; division; duty; enemy; field; fire; following; force; fort; general; general stevens; george; good; government; governor stevens; ground; guns; half; having; head; highlanders; horses; hostile; house; i. 412; i. stevens; indians; island; jackson; james; john; left; letter; lieutenant; line; little; major; man; march; men; miles; military; morning; mountains; near; new; nez; northern; number; officers; olympia; order; oregon; party; peace; people; perces; pike; point; pope; position; prairie; president; railroad; rear; regiment; report; reservation; right; river; road; route; second; service; settlers; sound; south; states; strong; territory; time; treaties; treaty; tribes; troops; union; valley; volunteers; walla; war; washington; way; whites; william; woods; wool; work; yakima; years; york; young cache: 43590.txt plain text: 43590.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 4512 author: Solomon, Steve title: Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway date: None words: 25830 flesch: 71 summary: How long available soil water will sustain a crop is determined by how many plants are drawing on the reserve, how extensively their root systems develop, and how many leaves are transpiring the moisture. Rain and irrigation are not the only ways to replace soil moisture. keywords: april; bed; crops; dry; earth; feet; foot; garden; gardening; growth; inches; irrigation; leaves; mid; moisture; plant; root; row; seed; soil; soil moisture; sowing; spacing; spring; squash; summer; surface; time; varieties; vegetables; water; winter; yield cache: 4512.txt plain text: 4512.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 45238 author: Wyeth, John B. (John Bound) title: Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey, 1832; and Townsend's Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, 1834 date: None words: 118359 flesch: 65 summary: While we were eating, a little Welshman, whom we had stationed outside our camp to watch the horses, came running to us out of breath, crying in a terrified falsetto, _Indians, Indians!_ Our camp moved soon after, under the direction of Captain Thing, and in about four miles reached _Utalla river_, where it stopped, and remained until 12 o'clock.[137] [137] Umatilla River, whose earlier name appears to have been Utalla. keywords: afternoon; appearance; arrival; band; bear; black; boat; body; buffalo; camp; canoe; captain; chief; columbia; company; country; course; day; days; distance; evening; expedition; feet; fine; fire; foot; fort; good; ground; half; head; hills; home; horses; hour; house; indians; journey; land; left; lewis; life; long; louis; man; men; miles; missouri; morning; mountains; new; night; north; note; number; oregon; party; people; place; plain; point; poor; prairie; return; river; rocky; salmon; saw; short; spot; stream; sublet; thing; time; trade; travelling; tribe; vancouver; visit; volume; walla; water; way; west; white; wyeth; years; young cache: 45238.txt plain text: 45238.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 45779 author: Various title: The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 date: None words: 135910 flesch: 70 summary: Many men took part in that struggle, but it is the present purpose to call attention to three eminent American statesmen who were brought into contact with the diplomacy of the case at each important stage of its evolution. A new party, moreover, was in power, and new men were at work. keywords: account; act; american; bay; beaver; boats; book; british; california; canoe; charge; chief; children; cloudy; coast; cold; columbia; company; country; course; day; days; death; discovery; early; end; evening; falls; fine; following; fort; furs; general; george; good; government; governor; great; head; high; historical; history; home; horses; house; idaho; indians; interest; john; journal; kittson; land; large; law; life; long; making; man; march; men; morning; mountains; new; night; northwest; note; number; oclock; oregon; pacific; party; past; people; place; present; professor; property; provisions; question; rain; river; school; seattle; set; skins; snow; society; sound; spokane; state; territory; time; trade; united; university; vancouver; volume; walla; war; washington; water; way; weather; white; work; years; yesterday; york cache: 45779.txt plain text: 45779.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 49371 author: Bagley, Clarence title: The Waterways of the Pacific Northwest date: None words: 3703 flesch: 61 summary: L. Potter, Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of United States Engineers, are tabulated the amounts heretofore expended in the second district on all river and harbor improvements to June 30, 1915, as follows: Willamette River above Portland, and Yamhill River, Oregon, $857,671.92; operating and care of lock and dam in Yamhill River, Oregon, $43,426.95; Willamette River at Willamette Falls, Oregon, $83,441.71; operating and care of canal and locks in Willamette River, near Oregon City, Oregon, $344.22; Columbia and Lower Willamette rivers below Portland, Oregon, $3,577,958.35; mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington, $13,156,162.52; Clatskanie River, Oregon, $18,867.34; Cowlitz River, Washington, $102,208.63; Lewis River, Washington, $39,587.19; Cowlitz and Lewis rivers, Washington, and Clatskanie River, Oregon, dredge and snagboat, $36,138.04; Grays River, Washington, $3,857.23. The lumber exports of the Columbia River region also were large. keywords: columbia; company; oregon; pacific; puget; river; sound; washington; willamette cache: 49371.txt plain text: 49371.txt