writers, the author of this paper was tempted to discuss the Oregon writers of history, since this gathering is held under the auspices of the Oregon Writers' League. There are many Oregon writers, and their works are indispensable sources of reference; among them being Frances Fuller Victor, author of Bancroft's "History of Oregon," "Early Indian Wars of Oregon," and other works; Charles H. Carey, "History of Oregon;" Elwood Evans, "History of the Pacific Northwest;" George H. Himes and Herbert O. Lang, "History of the Willamette Valley;" Harvey K. Hines, "Illustrated History of the State of Oregon;" John Henry Brown, "Political History of Oregon;" A. G . Walling, "History of Southern Oregon," and "History of Lane County;" Joseph Gaston, "Centennial History of Oregon;" Samuel A. Clarke, "Pioneer Days of Oregon History;" Horace S. Lyman, "History of Oregon;" Joseph Schafer, C. H. Chapman, Sidona V. Johnson, J. B. Horner, authors of primer texts; Frederick V. Holman, Frederic G. Young, Harvey W. Scott, Eva Emery Dye, W. D. Fenton, George H. Himes, John Minto, Charles H. Carey, Walter Carlton Woodward, Fred Lockley and T. W. Davenport, writers on special subjects.
Many noteworthy authors are not Oregon writers, such as Robert Greenhow, perhaps the most authentic of all on the acquisition of Oregon; H. H. Bancroft, William I. Marshall, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Clinton A. Snowden, Edmund S. Meany, C. J. Brosnan, John Fiske, Hiram M. Chittenden, Lester Burrell, Hiram Shippee, Katherine B. Judson, Fred Wilbur Powell, George Wilkes, Washington Irving, Julian Hawthorne, Ross Cox, Alexander Ross, Gabried Franchere, John Kirk Townsend, and numerous other explorers, including Lewis and Clark, Charles Wilkes, W. R. Broughton, Jonathan Carver, John Ledyard, John Meares, Robert Gray, Alexander Henry and David Thompson, Peter Skene Ogden, John Work. Then too, great masses of unused materials, other than records of explorers, have come into the hands
