That was the one that was published by University of Oregon about 1940?
I was interested in archeology in the early 1930’s. I had a little Indian boy in my sixth-grade class by the name of Charlie Cowan. He had a bunch of artifacts he’d found when he was out herding sheep. He didn’t know anything about them and neither did I and neither did anybody else. I thought that was a shame. We had probably 2,000 Indians in this region, and you could find out all about the Pueblo Indians and the horse Indians of the [Great] Plains and everything else, but virtually nothing about the local Klamath and Modocs. I decided I’d find out as much as I could.
Then I got to thinking that we ought to have something published that we could use in the schools. That’s when I wrote the first book. I’m really too lazy to write a book. It’s a lot of work. But I thought we should have something published, and so the first book was calledAncient Tribes of the Klamath Country. It’s been an outstanding success. They’re getting ready to run it through the fifth printing now. I told them to give it up a long time ago, that it wouldn’t sell, but it’s still selling.
That was the one that was published by University of Oregon about 1940?
I was interested in archeology in the early 1930’s. I had a little Indian boy in my sixth-grade class by the name of Charlie Cowan. He had a bunch of artifacts he’d found when he was out herding sheep. He didn’t know anything about them and neither did I and neither did anybody else. I thought that was a shame. We had probably 2,000 Indians in this region, and you could find out all about the Pueblo Indians and the horse Indians of the [Great] Plains and everything else, but virtually nothing about the local Klamath and Modocs. I decided I’d find out as much as I could.
Then I got to thinking that we ought to have something published that we could use in the schools. That’s when I wrote the first book. I’m really too lazy to write a book. It’s a lot of work. But I thought we should have something published, and so the first book was calledAncient Tribes of the Klamath Country. It’s been an outstanding success. They’re getting ready to run it through the fifth printing now. I told them to give it up a long time ago, that it wouldn’t sell, but it’s still selling.
