Excerpt from Jason Lee: Prophet of the New Oregon

Special acknowledgment of thanks is due these scholars, whose assistance in the preparation of this biography was fundamental: Dr. Herbert E. Bolton, Director of the Bancroft Library and Head of the Department of History, University of California; Dr. E. A. Bryan, President Emeritus and Research Professor of Economic History, Washington State College; and Dr. T. C. Elliott, historical writer and authority on Pacific Northwest His tory, Walla Walla, Washington. For constructive suggestion, and criticism leading to the avoidance of errors as to fact and pro cedure, I am deeply indebted to these generous and disinterested friends, who, of course, are not responsible for any inaccuracies that may appear in the biography. For the courteous and efficient aid given by numerous library staffs in Canada and the United States, I wish to express appreciation. I am under heaviest Obliga tion to the following libraries: The Bancroft Library, University Of California, for the manuscript collection on the Oregon Mis sion; the Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con necticut, for the file of the Clm'rtz'an Advocate and the hitherto undiscovered lee-fisk Correspondence; the Library of the Oregon Historical Society, Portland, for the Jason Lee Manuscript Collec tion; the Congregational Library, Boston, for the file of Zion'r Herald; and the Library of the Stanstead Historical Society, Stan stead, Quebec, for material on Lee's ancestry and early life. T 0 many persons who have given some form of friendly assistance, I am sincerely grateful.

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