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amusement to those who have listened to them, and I have been induced to publish them, in the hope that they may amuse others. Should this little book please you, I shall be pleased. Yours truly,

UNCLE JIM.

William Gladstone Steel. The Mountains of Oregon. Portland, 1890.

Born in Ohio in 1854, William G. Steel picked up as a boy an old newspaper that happened to contain an article on Crater Lake, which took such forcible and sustained hold on his imagination that he could not get it out of his mind. He came to Oregon in 1872, at the age of 18, and first visited the lake in 1885. He launched the first boat Iooo feet down its precipitous walls and had charge of the first soundings that showed a maximum depth of 2008 feet. He did much to have it set aside as Crater Lake National Park, of which he was later superintendent. The first article in The Mountains of Oregon is entitled “Illumination of Mount Hood”, which many years later served as the basis for the fiction story, “The Fourth of the Far Fifteen” in the book Marooned in Crater Lake. For a while, beginning in 1906, William G. Steel edited and published a little magazine called Steel Points.

Louise G. Stephens. Letters from an Oregon Ranch, Chicago, 1905.

First published in the Oregonian. Called From an Oregon Ranch in another edition printed in 1916.

Charles H. Sternberg. Life of a Fossil Hunter, New York, 1909.

Sixty pages of this book describe the expedition to the Oregon desert in 1877.

Frances Staver Twining. Bird Watching in the West, Portland, 1933.

Mrs. Frances Staver Twining was born in Wisconsin in 1873 and was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1899. “Ten years later she was married to C. W. Twining, a banker, and as- sumed the mothering of his eight children. When the children were grown and away to homes of their own, she turned to writing.” The Twinings moved from Wisconsin to Oregon in 1913 and live in the country, at Glenmorrie, a few miles south of Portland. Chandler Bruer Watson. Prehistoric Siskiyou Island and Marble Halls of Oregon, Ashland, 1909.