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In 1868 he taught a district school near Marquam. While out deer hunting on a Saturday he and a companion found deer tracks all about a bubbling fountain. They stooped down to drink and thus discovered Wilhoit Springs. In his old age he retired to a ranch home west of Hood River.

Herbert Sheldon Lampman. Northwest Nature Trails, Portland, 1933.

Herbert Sheldon Lampman is the son of Ben Hur Lampman. He was born in North Dakota on March 18, 1907, and at the age of five came to Southern Oregon, where his father ran the Gold Hill News. Four years later he moved to Portland, receiving his educa- tion in the elementary schools, in Washington High School and in Hill Military Academy. He has been a reporter for the Portland News and the Spokane Press, and is now on the news staff of the Oregonian. He was a second lieutenant in the army during the War. Stanton C. Lapham. The Enchanted Lake, Portland, 1931.

Agnette Midgarden Lohn. The Voice of the Big Firs— a story of the Hood River Valley—Fosston, Minnesota, 1918.

William Rogers Lord. A First Book Upon the Birds of Oregon and Washington, Portland, 1901. The first edition was published by the author. Later editions in 1902 and 1913 were published by the J. K. Gill Company. William D. Lyman. The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce. New York, 1909. Wallis Nash. Oregon, There and Back in 1877, London, 1878; Two Years in Oregon, New York, 1882. Mae Celeste Post. Loitering in Oregon, Portland, 1914. Will E. Purdy. Sixteen Years in Oregon, Portland, 1912. S. A. D. Puter and Horace Stevens. Looters of the Public Domain, Portland, 1908.

From the introduction by Horace Stevens: "From the dismal re- cesses of a prison cell, S. A. D. Puter, the acknowledged leader of the Oregon land-fraud ring, who was pardoned by the President, December 31, 1907, after serving 17 months of a two-years' sentence in the Multnomah County jail for conspiracy to defraud the gov- ernment of its public lands, has sent forth through these p