Gentry Ward Cutsforth entered this world in a family farmhouse near Gervais, Oregon and is enjoying his retirement just twenty-five miles south of Portland in the rural city of Canby, Oregon.His great, great grandparents, William and Hannah Lewis trekked to Oregon in 1853 with their twelve children over the Oregon Trail from Missouri and settled in the fertile Willamette Valley south of the present city of Eugene.After his mother, Lillian Lewis Cutsforth had passed away at the age of 97, Gentry discovered, in her belongings, an old scrapbook in which she had kept clippings of "Oregon or Bust" stories that appeared in the Oregonian newspaper in 1935-36. The precious stories are now preserved… for all to read, learn from, and enjoy.