We have in the past, but I don’t think that’s [the cases] currently.
They approved Sagebrush, but I don’t think they’re selling it. Every time I talk to them, they say, “Yes, give us a sample.” And I gave away so many samples and I don’t know what happened to them.
Sometimes they sell five, and they sort of see how it goes.
I don’t know that they would be big sellers, but they sell everywhere else, [at least] moderately. When a new book hits the deck, they sell a lot of them in Klamath Falls because that’s what they’re about. I wouldn’t have written them otherwise. If I wanted to write a book to make money, I’d write about something in Chicago or New York.
About your background… What led you to go from where you were born in Brownsville [OR] to here in Klamath County?
I never went to school in the [Klamath] county. I was at Ashland and the president of the school called me in. I as getting along toward the middle of my graduation year. The president of the school was J.E. Churchill and he was also very active in placing the graduates. He called me in and he said “Where do you want to teach school?” and I couldn’t think of anyplace I wanted to teach. I knew I didn’t dare go back to my home town and try to teach. I had a sister teaching here, so I said Klamath County. They called me in for an interview. Fred Peterson, the superintendent, they said, is coming over at such and such a time and you come in for an interview. So I borrowed a suit of clothes from a friend of mine and went down for the interview. Shortly after that, he sent a contract over to teach there for $100 a month, which was good money at that time. I let it lay around, and lost it, and then I found it. I was interested in coaching. Of course, I thought I was an athlete. I got that contract and I was glad to find it because there were about two teachers for every job in those days.
