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 be distributed among the Indians of the interior for the ex termination of the Protestants. The state of the popular mind may be imagined when such a story would receive credence and become the source of a general anti-Catholic movement.

12 DAN E. CLARK

Dr. Dan E. Clark is professor of history in the University of Oregon and assistant director of general extension in the State Sys tem of Higher Education. Though carrying a heavy load of uni versity teaching and administration, he has kept his light burning often enough and long enough, after all the other houses are dark on Moss Street in Eugene, so that he has added a reputation as a historian of the West to a wide reputation he already had as a his torian of the Middle West before he came to Oregon. He is now completing a volume on the westward movement, which has been announced for publication in 1935 or 1936.

He was born in Ogden, Iowa, in 1884, and after finishing the Ogden High School in 1901 worked at the printing trade for two years. He later attended Morningside College and, transferring to the University of Iowa, was graduated in 1907. He received a master's degree in 1908 and a doctor's degree in 19 10, both from the University of Iowa. He was appointed to the faculty and remained until 1918 as lecturer in Western American and Iowa History and as associate editor of the Iowa Journal of History and Politics. For three years, from 19 16 to 191 9, he was a member of the board of editors of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review. He was married in 191 1 to Abigail E. White and in 1918 came to the Pacific North west. He was an executive with the Northwestern Division of the American Red Cross in Seattle from 1918 to 1921. In that year he joined the faculty of the University of Oregon, with which, and with the State System of Higher Education, he has since remained, in the history department and in the general extension division.

He has contributed numerous articles to the historical quarterlies and has written four pamphlets : One Hundred Topics in Iowa His tory, 1912, 1918; The Graduate College, 1916; The Spirit Lake Massacre, 1918, and Border Defense in Iowa, 1918. He is the author of three books in addition to the western history upon which he is now working: History of Senatorial Elections in Iowa, 1912; The Government of Iowa, 1915; and Biography of Samuel Kirkwood, 191 7. Two of his best known articles on the West are "The Ro mance and Reality of the American Frontier," 1927; and "Mani