Recollections of an old Oregon mining-law specialist (WPA oral-history interview)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast
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On May 3, 1938, Federal Writers Project worker Andrew Sherbert sat down with a tall, urbane, professional 70-year-old mining-law specialist named J. Thorburn Ross to talk about Mr. Ross's recollections of working in old Portland for George Himes and later experience in the area of Sailors' Diggin's and Waldo. (For text and pictures, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001951/)