He was at Newberry, and then he must have come to Crater Lake the year after.
He’d done most of the field work at Crater Lake, I think, before I knew him, but he hadn’t published on Crater Lake in ’35. So my work on the domes there, I don’t know whether he used it or not.
What encouraged you to pursue that idea of the domes?
Well, when we were studying under Howell Williams I wrote articles on domes and I wrote term papers for him on domes and on calderas. I have one paper on calderas that I wrote for him and it summarized all the literature on calderas. He wrote several papers on calderas, too, you know.
What was your view about the so-called backflow when you were a naturalist at Crater Lake?
I had the idea that it was where a vent came up rather then being a backflow. And it shows that in one of my cross-sections, I think.
Were you caught in the middle concerning what happened at Crater Lake having studied under Smith, and then being around Williams?
I don’t know what the answer is yet. I’m not at all sure that Bacon has it right.
What allowed you to pursue publication of your article?
I left Crater Lake that winter. You couldn’t do winter field work in Curry County hunting for chromites, which was what my job was, when there was a couple of feet of snow. So, I was snowed in for weeks at a time. And that’s when I wrote it.
Your chromites work in Curry County would have been in the interior. Did you do a lot of work on the coast?
No. It was mostly in the interior, we worked out of Agnes for one whole year. I had a crew of about nine Indians that I hired to prospect for me. And every week I’d go out with a park train and bring them their supplies, check what they’d done, and then pay them off, and then come back in, you see.
