Each Person Has A Song:
The Yurok were a very happy people. Each person had a song you know. When they would paddle the river alone they would sing. And one would know who was coming by the song around the bend. And all would turn out to greet him.

Captain Spott had a song. It was called "Song of the Lonely Trial." The Indian always picked up rocks and sticks off the trail, the trail was a living thing. In Captain Spott's song, if the trail was mistreated, its face would hurt. I:194

The Captain's Successor:
[ Harry] was taught from the time he was six years old and sent to the sweathouse. He was taught all that was to be handed down as the Captain's successor. I:74

The Flowers Are Always Calling:
Let me tell you about Harry as a boy, his love of flowers. (When he was about two or three years old).. .because (Atwater) had been Miller and Lux pasture land and was cattle country, so there were still open fields and he used to tell me the flowers are always calling him. And I think they must have been. II:79

Death of Jedediah Smith:
Among the fifteen men massacred on the Umpqua was rear-guard-officer Harrison Rogers. Two other men had deserted in California. Two remained in Oregon. Only Jedediah Smith and three of his crew made it to Fort Vancouver. In 1836 the Hudson Bay Company sent men back to recover Smith's horses, furs, and the two journals; but also to learn the route into California. Before that happened, however, thirty-six year old Jedediah Smith, who had returned to Utah a wealthy man, died from Comanche arrows on the Santa Fe Trail. II:177

Jedediah Smith's Diary:
Smith's Diary fell into (Indian) hands... .With the knowledge.. .gained on this trip through our part of the country, they (the two journals) could have been responsible for its being settled 25 years before it really was...Up to 1924 Jedediah Smith was unknown except to a very few. Upon the discovery of his diary that had for years been locked up in the archives of a mid-Western University and its publication, he has become known as one of the great explorers of the west. II:178