I - Come the Whites |
| 1. Old Mariners Passing By | 1 |
| 2. Exploring Trappers | 9 |
| 3. Coos and Curry Indians | 19 |
| 4. The Land | 29 |
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II - Settlement |
| 5. Early Colonies | 37 |
| 6. Three More Colonies | 54 |
| 7. Some Pioneer Families | 67 |
| 8. Indian Troubles | 87 |
| 9. Rise of Towns | 93 |
| 10. Ghost Towns | 133 |
| 11. Pioneer Merchants | 143 |
| 12. Early Doctors | 158 |
| 13. Coos Plants | 170 |
| 14. Wildlife | 179 |
| 15. Rogue River | 198 |
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III - Culture |
| 16. Education Since 1854 | 213 |
| 17. The Churches | 224 |
| 18. Coos and Curry Newspapers | 237 |
| 19. Literature | 259 |
| 20. Folk Literature | 285 |
| 21. Libraries | 298 |
| 22. Music and Drama | 308 |
| 23. Coos Officials | 312 |
| 24. Pioneer Association | 318 |
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IV - Agriculture |
| 25. Farmlands and Farming | 329 |
| 26. Coos Bay Dairymen | 340 |
| 27. Bulbs and Bulb Growers | 353 |
| 28. Cranberries | 358 |
| 29. The Grange | 364 |
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V - Industries |
| 30. Gold | 371 |
| 31. Coal | 391 |
| 32. Ships, Builders, Captains | 405 |
| 33. Forest, Timber, Lumbering | 425 |
| 34. Fish and Fishing | 439 |
| 35. Grist Mills | 452 |
| 36. Electricity | 458 |
| 37. Assortment of Enterprises | 462 |
| 38. Land Transportation | 480 |
| 39. Communication | 491 |
| 40. Inventions and Science | 499 |
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VI - Biographies | 509 |
| Index | 585 |
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Illustrations |
| In the text by letterpress, imaginative drawings from old prints;
line engravings from camera pictures; a charcoal protrait of Minnie Myrtle Miller by Bernard Hinshaw;
a woodcut by H. Macarthey in 1896. Reproduced by offset, thirty-one pages of photographs from the Pioneer
Museum at Coquille and from private collections. Endpapers are from an old unsigned watercolor painting for
many years in the Tichenor family; though the view is dated 1859, it is similar in details of the town to
a woodcut in Harper's Magazine in 1855. | |