Oregon Literature

The 1899 book "Oregon Literature" is a collection of poems, short articles as well as historical accounts of some of the authors from the American State of Oregon. It is the work of John B. Horner, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the State Agricultural College of Oregon. He states, "Oregon has produced more genuine literature during the short period of her history, extending back only fifty years, than all the thirteen American colonies wrote in a century and half. Notwithstanding this fact, she is the oldest state in the Union that has not collated the best things written by her sons and daughters. This task has been delayed merely for want of time and inclination. No one did it, so I undertook it."