CAPTAIN SPOTT (HAAGANORS):
Captain Spott was the last great Indian, the last high man on the Klamath River....He was close to 100 when he died......very, very high family. II:90

It was said that in a heavy sea Captain Spott would stand in the bow and spank the ocean down with his paddle. II:258

Captain Spott told his son Robert Spott, who later yet told Alfred Kroeber: "Now he was seeing with his own eyes how it was done, when before he had never thought much about it. Because this is the way the people of old had done from the beginning and now they had chosen him for the part."I:193

ROBERT SPOTT:
"He was the last Sweathouse Indian on the Klamath River," Harry said, attempting to encapsulate in one sentence the meaning of Robert Spotts trained Indian mind, his comprehensive Indian knowledge, and his finely honed human memory.

But Robert Spott possessed other qualities: Level-headedness. Humility. Selflessness. Qualities which Florence Shaughnessy said an Indian leader needed. Qualities which may have eluded Harry Roberts, being more or less a stranger to them himself! I:66

HARRY ROBERTS :
When one thinks of my country one should start at the beginning...first there was the country...

First you had to find it. You saw it through a tourist trap and saw Oregos and her Sister stretch out their legs, first from one side and then from the other: and you saw not sterile sea-washed sand.. .but the moving living limbs of the Wagay who stayed here after the flood to take care of the now-time people.

At first it looked so simple.. .but then you looked again.... First there is you. Tell about yourself and how you came to write this book. And you had to find the country. You had to learn to see it. The present overlay of tourism and stupid fishhogs. I:3

ALFRED KROBER:
"Great men can appear only while great patterns are in the shaping during the life history of a civilization.

At other times genius is wasted--it has nothing to take hold of, it leaves no achievement that permanently means something." I:153