The Binfords & Mort Story: Publishing Books About Oregon, 1930-1983

Sponsored by The Book Club of California.

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**

To register to attend the online event, click here.