[pct-l] Oregon PCT Names

[Bob]

Wayne, 

Love good research like that.  Looks like the folks at Wilderness Press
should change it from "Oppie" (current guidebook) to "Opie" next edition.

Bob

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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:32 PM
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Subject: [pct-l] Oregon PCT Names

Responding to Dr. Bob:

I should probably include in each of these posts a reference to Oregon 
Geographical Names by Lewis A. "Tam" McArthur and Lewis L. McArthur from 
which most of this material is gleaned.  My own tiny contribution is a 
little bit of original research, a little cross-referencing of entries in 
the book that might not occur to someone who has spent less than 50 years in

Oregon and a bit of spin to make the story a little more interesting without

destroying its accuracy.

What the McArthur's say exactly about the Opie Dilldock strip is that Opie 
"always found his way out of impossible situations."  My own research 
(googling Opie Dilldock) gave me enough of a take on the nature of the strip

to expand a little on what the strip is about.

Older maps show the spelling as "Oppie Dilldock" with two P's.  Once it was 
determined that the comic strip was the likely source of the name and that 
the comic strip character was Opie not Oppie, the Oregon Geographical Names 
Board voted unanimously in December, 1974 to correct the spelling to Opie. 
So sayeth Tam McArthur. 

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