The following note about George Estes is from Old Oregon, the alumni magazine of the University of Oregon, where he was graduated, with an LL.B. degree, in 1915:
"Writing about Oregon's early days and legal work in Portland occupy the time of George Estes. Already accepted as an Oregon author by critics because of some half dozen books, Mr. Estes has as many more in process of preparation or completed and ready for the printer. Naturalist as well as historian and teller of tales is Mr. Estes. One of his forthcoming books will have to do with Oregon forest folk, a story amongst animals. A deal of it is taken from Hudson's Bay Company records.
"The Rawhide Railroad, 1916, and The Stagecoach, 1925, have received perhaps the most publicity, the one for its review by Emerson Hough in the Saturday Evening Post. From that a friendship arose between the two men lasting until the death of Mr. Hough.
"Mr. Estes' information for both books came at first hand. He was at one time chief spokesman for the railroad trainmen and workers in a successful strike of the Pacific Coast region. Data for The Stagecoach came from his observations at his boyhood home where his father maintained a depot for the early horse stagecoaches, and from family records. Mr. Estes' books are printed privately."
William Lovell Finley. American Birds, New York, 1907; Little Bird Blue, Boston, 1915; Wild Animal Pets, New York, 1928.
William L. Finley is a naturalist who has worked effectively for a quarter of century for the preservation of wild life in Oregon—building up public attitudes, promoting protective legislation and getting the Federal reservations set aside. He was born in California on August 9, 1876, and came to Oregon at the age of eleven. He was graduated from the University of California in 1903. He was a writer on the staff of the Review of Reviews Company from 1904 to 1905. The next year he began lecturing for the National Association of Audubon Societies, a service he continued for 19 years. He was Oregon state game warden from 1911 to 1915; state biologist from 1915 to 1920; and member of the state game commission from 1925 to 1927. He is a member of the editorial board of Outdoor America and has been on the editorial staff of Nature Magazine since 1923. In addition to his books, he has written numerous popular and scientific articles on bird and animal life, is the author of two bulletins on Oregon birds, and is the producer of well-known motion picture films on nature subjects. In 1891 he was married to Irene Barnhart of California, who collaborated with him in writing Little Bird Blue and Wild Animal Pets. Their home is at Jennings Lodge, between Portland and Oregon City.
