In this chapter I present a personal reminiscence of the development of our current ideas about quark confinement. I describe what I remember of my own involvement and that of the people who influenced me. If others remember it differently, I hope they will not be too angry.

By the end of the 1960s our empirical knowledge of hadrons consisted of a vast mountain of data about their spectrum, their low- and high-energy interactions, and their electromagnetic and weak properties. To some extent the story of the eventual interpretation in terms of QCD was like digging a tunnel through the mountain with crews of diggers starting independently at the two ends. At one end was the short-distance behavior of local currents and its interpretation in terms of freely moving quark-parton constituents. At the other end was the low-momentum-transfer Regge structure including a spectrum of highly excited rotational states, shrinking diffraction peaks, and multihadron final states of peripheral collisions, but no free quarks. Sometime in 1973 the two tunnel crews discovered that they had met and a complete picture of the strong interactions existed. Of course the two crews were not entirely unaware of each other. The Regge workers were beginning to organize the trajectories by quantum numbers suggested by the quark model. Eventually, the Regge picture culminated in 1968 with a set of scattering amplitudes based on the duality principle of R. Dolen, D. Horn, and C. Schmidt.