Record Details
pages 82-83
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_026bk http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,686 |
| Title | pages 82-83 |
| Relation | Down The Columbia |
| Date | 2004-08-05 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 144,735 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 249, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | Roos was young and experienced, and lacking in both finesse and subtlety. I granted that this wouldn't have cramped his style much in doing "old home town stuff;" but farther afield it was electric with dangerous possibilities. Driving back to the hotel I quoted to him what Kipling's hero in "The Man Who Would Be King" said on the subject, paraphrasing it slightly so he would understand. "A man has no business shooting farewell scenes with borrowed brides in foreign parts be he three times a... |
