The Storm's Gift 1920 by C.E. Linton SIGNED - Shipwreck Novel - Oregon - Yachats - Waldport

Title: The Storm's Gift

Author: Dr. C. E. [Charles Ellsworth] Linton

Description: Inscribed by Linton on front free endpaper. Red cloth boards pictorially stamped in black. Boards blemished/dampsoiled along fore-edges (worse on rear board). Dampstains to top corner of the last dozen pages (not affecting any text), else interior is unmarked and generally clean. Seven illustrated plates. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends and corners; spine faded and scuffed; in an archival mylar sleeve. No statement of date, but was published in 1920. 210 pages.

A dramatic novel of pioneer life in Oregon, set in the period of the 1860's and early 1870's. It begins with a storm and shipwreck off of the Yachats rocks and the rescue of an ailing sailor and a baby. Revelations of the infant's identity are followed by adventures on land and at sea. Much of the action takes place in Oregon.

Inscribed ''To the Lady of the Imperial / List. / With best wishes of / the Author / Dr C E Linton''.

Charles Ellsworth Linton (1865-1930) was an Oregon author and doctor who lived in the Waldport area on the coast. He was born in Iowa, but by 1895 was residing in Nehalem; a few years later he served as the second mayor of Warrenton (1899). He ran the Gem drug store in Astoria just after the turn of the century and about 1904 moved to Alsea Bay. In 1909 he served as the postmaster of the Lutgens (Bayshore) post office and was the proprietor of Waldport pharmacy. He was the author of several books. According to his obituary, these earned him the sobriquet of "The Jules Verne of Oregon.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good–
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Press of the Interstate Bindery
Place: Vancouver, Wash.
Year: 1920

Keywords: fiction, novel, Yachats, Oregon, Waldport, Alsea, Lincoln County, shipwrecks, Oregon coast, pioneer life, adventure, Oregon authors,