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288 for Harvard University, published in 1922. The Portland Library uses a short list for ready reference, compiled by Miss Rockwood, and the Washington State Library has a list of public documents, 1854-1918, contained in that library, published in 1920. H. R. Wagner, of Berkeley, California, is compiler of a book list entitled "The Plains and The Rockies," being a list of works on travel and adventure.

These several lists of reference publications cover a wide range of bibliography. But they omit, necessarily, great quantities of more or less new materials. They may be said to represent what has been already harvested and passed through the grist mill of historical research. The materials of newspapers, personal manuscripts, governmental documents of the President, Congress, and the departments of State, War and Interior, opinions of State and United States courts, acts of state legislatures, monographs published in such periodicals as the Oregon Historical Quarterly, the Washington Historical Quarterly, transactions of pioneer associations of Oregon and Washington, the Oregon Native Son, West Shore, Pacific Monthly, and The Oregonian. Of all these materials, the most imposing are the records of governmental departments and Congress, the opinions of courts, and the acts of the Oregon legislature. Contemporary newspaper narratives are indispensable sources. For example, the extant copies of the "Oregon Spectator," 1846-52, the "Oregon Statesman," 1851-61, the "Oregon Argus," 1855-63, the "Oregon Weekly Times," 1850-59, the "Oregon Sentinel," 1860-70, the Olympia "Columbian" and "Pioneer and Democrat," 1852-61, are invaluable references of pioneer history, and, being contemporary with events, are accepted as authentic. We find the general histories of Victor, Bancroft and Charles H. Carey referring often to pioneer newspapers. The monumental compendium of this kind is the file of "The Oregonian," beginning in December, 1850, and continuing to the present day, complete except for a