In 1891 while still teens in Portland, Oregon, Maurice and Peter Binford started an influential career as publishers. They went on to found the Binfords & Mort publishing company focused on Pacific Northwest literature. This talk will explore how this mostly forgotten company, once the largest publisher west of the Mississippi, cast a large shadow over regional literature, literary societies, recreation, and civic engagement in the Pacific Northwest.
An in-person and virtual presentation by Jeremy Skinner, author, archivist, and Library Director for Curry Public Library in Gold Beach, Oregon
**The Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West**