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Gift of Elizabeth Reed Brent.
Elizabeth Reed Brent's family moved to Keno, Oregon, from Iowa in 1891. Brent was born in Keno in 1895, and about two years later, the family moved to Picard, California. They later moved to Chico, California.
An Octogenarian's Childhood on the Western Frontier, Mss 2895, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Photocopy typescript reminiscences, 120 pages, 1980, of Elizabeth Reed Brent's childhood in Picard, California, now called Dorris, from the late 1890s to 1906. With photographs and maps.
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An edited version of Elizabeth Reed Brent's reminiscences, "Childhood on the Western Frontier," was published in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 83, No. 2 (Summer 1982), pages 117-152.