both in accuracy and in attractiveness of presentation, includes the following men and women: Mrs. Caro line C. Dobbs, historian for the Daughters of the American Revolution and author of Men of Champoeg; Earle Richardson of The Dalles Observer-Itemizer, publisher of the two volumes of Polk County Sketches; R. J. Hendricks of Salem, author of numerous articles and of the well-known book Bethany and Aurora; Ida Turney of Hood River, author of Paul Bunyan Comes West, who used the myth of the master woodsman for a doctor's thesis in the University of Wisconsin and who is now extending it, with much fresh material, into a book; Lulu D. Crandall of the Old Fort Dalles Historical Society, who during the last 15 years of her life gathered historical data on The Dalles and Wasco County with such unceasing industry that "from morning till late in the night she worked, apparently never tiring"; Henry E. Reed, bright chronicler of old Portland days; Omar C. Spencer, Portland attorney, whose writing interest was first stimulated by his fascinating pursuit of collecting books on early Oregon; Frederick W. Skiff, who during 20 years has picked up from attics and second-hand stores $50,000 worth of Pacific Northwest Americana and who has written of his experiences in finding old and rare Oregon volumes and pamphlets in Adventures in Americana; Leona M. Nichols, who is finding much new material in her energetic research and who is writing a life of Joab Powell; Albert Tozier, former curator of the Champoeg Memorial Park, who has filled the old Dr. Newell house with clippings, pamphlets, books
