Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

And south they went, along roads that steadily grew worse,
through the dairy country of Langlois and through thick pine
forests to Port Orford, where Saxon picked jeweled agates on the
beach while Billy caught enormous rockcod. No railroads had yet
penetrated this wild region, and the way south grew wilder and
wilder. At Gold Beach they encountered their old friend, the
Rogue River, which they ferried across where it entered the
Pacific. Still wilder became the country, still more terrible the
road, still farther apart the isolated farms and clearings.