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 the Thlinkits of Alaska" and "Chief Joseph, the Nez Percé" in the Century Magazine, and "Our Indian Question," a long paper of 58 pages, in the Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States. In 1878, when he was 26, he was married to Nannie Naole Smith. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar, and, quitting the army, began the practice of law in Portland, where he remained as a leader in that profession for 35 years, until 1919. His present home is at Los Gatos, California.

His literary output has not been voluminous and much of it was originally published in Portland. Following is a descriptive list of his pamphlets and books:

A Book of Tales; Being Some Myths of the North American Indians. Englished by Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Portland. McArthur & Wood. 1891.

A 143-page book in a limited edition of 105 copies. Another edition was published in 1929 by The Vanguard Press, New York.

A Masque of Love. Chicago. Walter M. Hill. 1904.

"Of this book five hundred copies have been printed at the Elston Press, New Rochelle, New York." It consists of 90 pages of prose and poetry. Back that far it contained some of the doctrine which his friends may have considered academically poetic but which they were to recognize more strikingly later. The following is a brief example, as put in the mouth of Magdalen:

"I must be free and I will be free. This wicked compact marriage which in an hour doth bind the unknown sum of years despite what change may come."

The Sleeping Princess. A Christmas Masque. 1913.

A 38-page pamphlet of prose and poetry.

The Poet in the Desert. Portland. 1915.

"Of this book one thousand copies have been printed at the Press of F. W. Baltes and Company in Portland, Oregon, April, 1915."

Of this, one critic has said: "I know of nothing like it for sheer splendor of speech, sheer beauty of vision: unless one thinks back