May Oregon flourish by receiving constant additions to her vigorous and industrious people, whose efforts, in scarcely any other place in the wide world so certain of a due return, may make her waste places plain, and cause her wildernesses to rejoice and blossom as the rose!
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
A wrong turn in any of these wildernesses may mean death.
"Camp and Trail"
Stewart Edward White
He was one of the cleanest-souled men she had ever known; he had, also, a strange touch of paganism, of mystery, as of free spaces and savage, unstained wildernesses, and he could give her a home, and he would allow her freedom.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland