This section of the book focuses on the arrival of the Europeans and the settlement of the Lower Columbia and the Nehalem Valley.
- Settlement of Astoria
- James Swan’s stories about Shoalwater Bay
- The Hudson Bay Fort & David Douglas
- Settlement of Scappoose and St. Helens
- Sauve, Logie and the trail to Dairy Creek
- James Wyeth and the American Fur Company
- Cowanich and the marauding Klickitat’s
- Stories from the Cathlamet Island memoirs
- Thomas McKay
- Chief Concomly
- David Thompson
- Stories from the Sentinel-Mist newspaper
- Kauxama Nupika, Gone-to-the-Spirits
- David Douglas
- Early penetration into the Nehalem Valley
- Jason Lee, Presbyterian Circuit Rider
- Settling the Clatsop Spit
- Settling Tillamook
- Settling the Necanicum River valley
- Dr. Keil and the traveling coffin
