After twelve days' travel, we arrived within twenty miles of the place where we wished to settle, and the way would not admit a wagon any farther ... There we remained for three days, while we prepared one-horse sleds, suitable to pass on a trail, by which we conveyed our goods through a dense forest of fir and cedar, over a small mountain, cutting our way through, and bridging logs by throwing smaller logs against them, so that a beast could pass over. In this way we worked through to the Coquelle River, the distance of eight miles .... After being here a short time, we notified the people that there would be preaching in the grove a short distance from our houses, on the coming Sabbath, where there assembled a good and attentive congregation .... We think, the Lord willing, churches will spring up in Oregon.
Source: Preaching in a Tavern, Kenneth I. Morse
