manuscripts. Harper's New Monthly Magazine bought "Legend of the Cascades", and published it, with illustrations, as the featured contribution in the February number, 1874.
How much encouragement this gave him and his wife we can imagine, but apparently no publisher made a bid for the whole book.
This explains, in part, at least, why the people of Oregon did not give to his pamphlet of poems the appreciation it deserved. They did not have a fair chance. If he had submitted Sounds by the Western Sea in a sufficiently large edition to them directly instead of printing a few copies for the judgment of "publishers and critics", the outcome might have been different. The little volume might have been well known today instead of existing in only a few crumbling copies.
Several poems, some in lighter mood and of a topical nature, may be found in his scrapbooks, and three were printed in 1902 in the second edition of Horner's Oregon Literature, but none of this material is of the high order of Sounds by the Western Sea.
The Vanishing Indian
These few lines are taken from "Legend of the Cascades", a long poem of 566 lines. After it appeared in Sounds by the Western Sea, it was published, with illustrations, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in February, 1874.
He ceased to catch the salmon or hunt on hill or plain—
He laid him down with folded arms to never hunt again.
My people are no longer like the bended heads of clover—
The red men and their children are not leaves the forest over—
They do not fill the valleys as the red cones dot the pine,
