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 manuscripts. Harper's New Monthly Magazine bought "Legend of the Cascades", and published it, with illustrations, as the featured contribution in the February number, 1874.

How much encouragement this gave him and his wife we can imagine, but apparently no publisher made a bid for the whole book.

This explains, in part, at least, why the people of Oregon did not give to his pamphlet of poems the appreciation it deserved. They did not have a fair chance. If he had submitted Sounds by the Western Sea in a sufficiently large edition to them directly instead of printing a few copies for the judgment of "publishers and critics", the outcome might have been different. The little volume might have been well known today instead of existing in only a few crumbling copies.

Several poems, some in lighter mood and of a topical nature, may be found in his scrapbooks, and three were printed in 1902 in the second edition of Horner's Oregon Literature, but none of this material is of the high order of Sounds by the Western Sea.