Excerpt from The History of North America, the Pacific Slope and Alaska, Vol. 10
Oregon, the land of the mighty pine and the abounding salmon; California, the land of gold and luscious fruit; Idaho, whose output of valuable ore is matched by the product of her grazing plains; Washington, whose possibilities are limitless; Alaska, the vast empire wherein men have found for their labor rich rewards of precious metals and hardly less precious furs; all these make up the Pacific Slope of which we read in the present volume of The History of North America. The importance of these sections is undeniable; the Slope as a whole demands the constant attention of the Union. Its vast resources, though richly rewarding those who are exploiting them, are but beginning to be appreciated by those not in close touch with them.
Strange as it may seem to those to whom the greatness of the Pacific Slope is known, the literature upon the section is scanty; particularly is this condition realized by those who desire to obtain an adequate presentation of the Slope in one volume. Indeed, they might search in vain for such a work, for until its production by Professor Schafer there was none. Now, however, the reader may in one correlated presentation follow the exploration, settlement, colonization and development of that vast stretch of land whose southern boundary is the Gulf of California and whose northern limit is the Arctic Ocean; whose eastern border is the Rocky Mountains and whose western curb is the Pacific Ocean.
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