Several months ago, I picked up two books from the "Time Life Old West" series, probably the most common ones, "The Loggers" and "The Gunfighters". I just today got around to reading bits of them, The Logger book is interesting so far, as it focuses on the Northwest, where I live. Those early explorers seemed intent on naming stuff after themselves; Cap't Vancouver sailed around and presumably charted the coast of what is now called Vancouver island; which I'm sure the local tribes appreciated, so they didn't have to refer to it as "That island we don't know what the name of is yet" anymore. Later Cap't Vancouver explored up and down in the sound, which he opted to name after a guy on his crew, Peter Puget. (Hence it's Puget Sound. I'm not making this up.) Later a guy with the last name Douglas found a new species of tree, the Douglas Fir. Fortunately he got there before botanist Henry Hooglemeyersteinski. Another chap...