My Music Man: Audio Book Supplement

These photos and references serve to augment the 2025 audiobook My Music Man and can be found in the original book publication of My Music Man. For more about the book, including reviews and recordings, visit my original My Music Man webpage. The audiobook was released via Audible and Apple Books on June 30, 2025. For more details see Releasing My Music Man, the Audiobook!

Family Tree

Book Photos

Chapter 1

Dede, Dickie and Mike 1968
Macleay Park, 1969
Dad with William and George (Gill) Montgomery, Ann, Bill on 3115 NW Thurman Street, ca. 1936.

Chapters 2, 3 & 4

Mike and Dede
Dede as Mrs. Stake, 1964
Dad batting at Wallace Park, 1945
Dad’s first home, 3306 NW Thurman, 1938
Willamette River at Wilsonville, 1969
Andy and Dede, United Sewerage ad, ca. 1969

Chapters 5 & 6

William Montgomery (right) opera, 1898
Chloe Clarke Willson
Mom, Dede, Dad and Andrew, 1967
Daddy Dick radio book chat, ca. 1935
William Willson
Andy, Dede, Pat and Dad

Chapters 7, 8 & 9

Frank, Dorothy, Delia and Ardelia Haradon, Seaside, Oregon 1912
Mike on the maple
Our house (on the Willamette River), mid-1960s

Chapter 10 & 11

Whowhoo and Willamette Chief, 1966
Dad, Dede, Mike, and Dickie on Yamhill River, 1969
Mom with kids on the Yamhill River, 1969
Sam Gill, late 1800s
Dad (up top) on Steamer Portland
Ilahee before tower room, ca. 1953
Mom and Dad, 1955
Dad with Andy and Pat, 1959
Gill family gathering, Klipsan, Washington, 1905
Mallard Lake, Long Beach Peninsula, 1999
Dad (Pops) and Erin
Cousins and treasures

Chapter 13, 14, 15 & 16

Monument in Champoeg
J.K. Gill, Frances and Kate climb Mount Hood, 1892
Dede at Spirit Lake with Mount St. Helens, 1978
WhoWho as Rose Festival Princess in 1926
Gill’s Book Store, Salem ca. 1866
J.K. Gill with daughters, Jessie, Georgia, Kate, Frances, Dorothy (1920s)
Dad as baby with J.K. Gill, 1930
Daddy Dick and Dad, Cardinal Times editors, 1948

Chapter 17, 18 & 19

Dad as PIO Fort Lewis, ca. 1955
Dad, LaGrande Observer, ca. 1973
Crater Lake, 1975
Dede, Shriner Peak, Mt. Rainier National Park, 1981
Dad on the Willamette River
Dad among memorabilia
Rick, Mom. Dad, Dede and Andrew, 1988
Mom, Dede, Dad and Andrew, state basketball playoffs, 1976
Michael, Dede, Rick, Dad, Mom, Pat, Andrew, 1999
Dad in the DeDe on the Willamette River near Wilsonville

Sources and References


Chapter 1: Lover of Rivers
The Willamette: The story of Oregon’s green river. Erin Axelrod, Honor’s
thesis, Davidson Honor’s College, University of Montana

Chapter 2: Snow and Ice
Journal of Joseph. K. Gill, unpublished, 1884-1931

Chapter 4: Summer
Pollution in Paradise, Tom McCall,
https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/pollution_in_paradise_
documentary/#.V9acPfBHarU
Tualatin in the 1960’s, Loyce Martinazzi, Tualatin Historical Society

Chapter 6: The Falls
The White-Headed Eagle, Richard G. Montgomery, 1934, The McMillan
Company
Journal, Chloe Clarke, Willamette University, Hatfield Research
Library. Online at: http://libmedia.willamette.edu/cview/archives.
html#!doc:page:manuscripts/1645
Richard G. Montgomery and Frances Anne Interviews, 1974, Oregon
Historical Society
Marion County History Volume XV, Marion County Historical Society,
1998
Jason Lee: Prophet of the New Oregon, 1985. Academy Books, Portland
OR
List of Settlers West of Rockies, 1842, By Elijah White, Indian Agent. From
Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1842-1880. (Oregon
Superintendency)
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orspmhs/18421st.html
Clackamas County Historic Context Statement, 1990
http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/OHC/docs/clackamas_
clackamascounty_historicontext_1990.pdf
History of Oregon Methodism http://archive.org/stream
historyoforegonm01yarn
historyoforegonm01yarn_djvu.txt
History of Oregon by Charles Henry Carey https://books.google.com/
books?id=nfoXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA407#v=onepage&q&f=false
184
Dede Montgomery

Chapter 8: Our Town
City on the Willamette, Percy Maddux, 1952, Binfords & Mort,
Publishers, Portland, OR
Willamette Landings, Howard McKinley Corning, 1947, Oregon
Historical Society

Chapter 10: Boats, Carps and Steamers
Portland’s Maritime History, Harrison & Cowan, Arcadia Publishing, 2014
Nuts and Bolts, Journal of Samuel Gill, Hatfield Research Library,
Oregon History Museum
Memories of Steamboat Days, Samuel Gill, Hatfield Research Library,
Oregon History Museum

Chapter 11: Pirates
Observing Our Peninsula’s Past: The Age of Legends through 1931; Volume
One of the Chinook Observer Centennial Project, Nancy Lloyd, 2003

Chapter 13: Champoeg
Men of Champoeg, Caroline C. Dobbs, 1932, Metropolitan Press
Publishers, Portland OR
The Oregon Memorial of 1838 in the Oregon Historical Quarterly for
March 1933
https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/WHQ/article/
viewFile/8658/7693

Chapter 15: Chemeketa
History of Willamette, Willamette University, http://willamette.edu/
about/history/
Oregon and its Institutions, Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection
https://archive.org/stream/oregonitsinstitu00hine/
oregonitsinstitu00hine_djvu.txt
How Salem got its Name. Salem Online History
http://www.salemhistory.net/brief_history/salem_name.htm
The Return of Jason Lee, Hatfield Library News, Willamette University,
2015,http://library.willamette.edu/wordpress/archives/author/
mmcrobin/

Chapter 16: Books
Gill’s Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, 15th Edition, 1909, The J.K. Gill
Company, https://archive.org/details/gillsdictionary00goog

Chapter 17: Interrupted
Douglas-fir Tussock Moth in the Blue Mountains, Compiled by David C.
Powell June 2008 https://fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/
fsbdev7_015646.pdf
Chloe dusts her Mantel, Frances Gill, 1935, The Press of the Pioneers