Lise Hull

Long before the wreck of the Captain Lincoln in 1852 brought settlers to the North Spit, Native Americans and foreign explorers, including Sir Francis Drake, navigated the inland waterways and Pacific shoreline of what would become Coos County. The deep draft channel, timberfilled landscape, prime locationbetween San Francisco and Puget Soundand the discovery of gold made the region ripe for commercial success, and scores of pioneers migrated to the...