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 and of wood. Land was prepared and planted in wheat, corn, potatoes, peas, beans and turnips. An orchard with grafted and seedling apples and many other kinds of fruit was set out. A force of men was engaged in catching and salting salmon. Yet this great enterprise failed. Fort William was located on the west side of Sauvie's Island, Multnomah County. . . . The marker is on the high way between Portland and Astoria; three quarters of a mile north of the modern Logie Trail Road. The fort was direct ly east, across the Multnomah Channel. The old Indian trail into the Tualatin Valley formerly started from near the marker. This was improved by Logie, and became the main highway into the Willamette Valley. The present Logie Trail Road follows the general course of the old Indian route.

5 PHILIP H. PARRISH

Philip H. Parrish is the son of Randall Parrish, the popular novelist. He was born in Michigan on September 5, 1896, and spent his boyhood in Nebraska and Illinois. At the age of 17 he came to Oregon and was for three years a student at Oregon State College, later attending the University of Wisconsin. He was a reporter on the Olympia Morning Olympian and the Bellingham Herald and was a soldier at Camp Lewis during the war. After his discharge from the army, when he was still only 22, he joined the staff of the Oregon Journal, and worked for eight years on that paper. In 1927 he married Margaret Sheridan of Portland and spent that year as editor of alum ni publications at Oregon State College. He returned in 1928 to Portland as a member of the staff of the Oregonian, with which he has since remained, as reporter, columnist and editorial writer. In addition to frequent editorials and a large number of articles on the history of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, he is author of Before the Covered Wagon, 1931, which, during the few years since its publication, has become the most popular of all the accounts of the earlier period.

The Rumble of the Wagon Wheels

From Before the Covered Wagon, 1 93 1

But it is better to remember him as he was when with such a fine gesture he clasped hands with the new people who