Although only a few individual books are considered here, description, if the best of it were dug out of the old newspapers and magazines, would form the bulkiest portion of Oregon literature, exceeding even the history and going greatly beyond the fiction and poetry. One woman put her homesteading experiences in a book which the Chicago publishers remember 30 years later as having been popular. A visiting poet spent seven weeks on the Willamette in a flat bottomed boat and made the adventure into a charming volume. In many interesting ways the material has been used, but the quantity is so great and so varied that there still remain all sorts of delightful unwritten books.
George E. Cole. Early Oregon, Spokane, 1905.
This first appeared as a series of articles in the Sunday Oregonian in 1901.
Sam J. Cotton. Stories of Nehalem, Chicago, 1915.
Jeremiah Curtin. Myths of the Modocs, Boston, 1912.
Allen H. Eaton. The Oregon System: The Story of Direct Legislation in Oregon, Chicago, 1912.
Allen H. Eaton was born in Union County in 1878 and was graduated from the University of Oregon in 1902. For many years he ran a book and art store in Eugene. Beginning in 1906, he served several terms in the Oregon legislature. For a while previous to the War he was an instructor of art in the University of Oregon. He was a pioneer on the Pacific Coast in advancing the public appreciation of art, and in recent years he has been carrying on this work, in New York.
George Estes. The Rawhide Railroad, Canby, Oregon, 1916; The Old Cedar School, Portland, 1922; The Wayfaring Man, Portland, 1922; The Stagecoach, Cedarwood, Oregon, 1925.
