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Admission and Acknowledgments

I want to begin this book by admitting freely that it is a personal interpretation of a part of America which I love, which I knew as a child in the intimate way that only children can know a country, and which I revisited and chose again for a home as an adult who had seen a good slice of the globe in between.

It is impossible with a book of this nature to be definitive, or in any sense complete. But I should like the book to accomplish two things: give the outsider a feeling of the unique flavor of this particular part of America, and give the insider a heightened sense of what he has here, what it came from, and what he can do with it if he once comes to see it in its full potentiality.

This is not a book for students, because students are very well taken care of with excellent libraries in Oregon and Washington dealing exclusively with Northwest material. I know how good these libraries are because I have made use of them and found their staffs cooperative and helpful. I have had, indeed, cooperation and help from so many people that I dare not start on a list of those to whom I am indebted, and shall have to take this opportunity of thanking them in general for special favors which have been granted to me in assembling this material.