My friends and family, especially Judy and Dave Hurtley, Craig and Barb Rutschow; my son-in-law and step-daughter Joe and Kathleen Larsen; step-son and daughter-in-law, Matt and Melissa Kirkpatrick; our friends Blair and David Fredstrom; and others too numerous to mention who have shared their children with me and supported me in my vision of this book: I thank them.
Previously written works also contributed to this book. Of special significance were articles by Donald von Borstel and Millie Holmes von Borstel and a letter of Wendell Clodfelter’s from Jane Herbert’s nephew, all printed in the Sherman County For the Record, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1985, by the Sherman County Historical Society. The Oregon State Historical Society provided access to Western Publishing Group Publishers book, An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, 1905, numerous photographs, and a copy of a letter from the sons of John Todd. Other books I drew upon heavily include Bruce Harris’s The Wasco County History Book, issues of the Sherman County Historical Society’s For the Record, William H. McNeal’s book History of Wasco County, Oregon, and newspaper accounts compiled by the Wasco County Library. LaVelle Underhill’s article in The Dalles Chronicle and her kind conversations with me provided insights. Pioneer Roads of Central Oregon by Lawrence Nielsen, Doug Newman, and George McCart and articles in various works by Giles French and Bertha Belshe were very helpful as was Millie Moore-Voll’s book about the Moore home. Several reference works were essential. Marc McCutcheon’s Everyday Life in the 1800s; J. C. Furnas, The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587-1914; and Raymond Bial’s book Frontier Home all made creating life in the 1853 to 1893 era a labor of love. Cynthia Stowell’s book, Faces of a Reservation was especially helpful for its rich and sensitive rendering of the history of the Warm Springs people and the Confederated Tribes. I am grateful also to her for her recording of the Spokane myth I had Peter share with Joseph Sherar. The myth was originally quoted from Prophetic Worlds by Christopher Miller.
I also wish to acknowledge Marilyn Miller for early readings, Carol Tedder for copy editing, my agent Joyce Hart of Hartline Marketing, and Jakasa Promotions for their hard work on my behalf. And I extend a special thanks to Rod Morris, senior editor at Multnomah Publishers, for his faith and confidence in advance of seeing the finished manuscript and his insightful editing that made this book a richer work. There are others too numerous to mention and I hope my omitting them will be forgiven.
Most of all, I thank my husband, Jerry, for his encouragement, his patience, his suggestions for congruency, and his faith that my writing and this book are part of God’s plan for my life. He, more than any other, understands that “desire realized is a sweetness to the soul.”
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