The discussion concerning the place ofmyths, legends,and solid history is thoughtprovoking. For history graduate students itisa case study in how bureaucracy can change over a generation or two,how myths can begin, and how difficult itcan be todestroy them. Book Mes Compiled and written byKen DuBois Vashon Island Archaeology: A View fromBurton Acres Shell Midden, edited by Julie K. Stein and Laura S. Phillips (University ofWashington Press, Seattle, 2003. Illustrations, maps, tables. 151 pages. $30.00 paper.) The Burton Acres ShellMidden siteonVashon Island in Puget Sound became the focus of a two-week public archaeological project in 1995, and this volume details the discovery process shared bymiddle-school and university stu dents, Burke Museum staff,and members of thePuyallup tribe.Included are sections on field methods and stratigraphyand detailed descrip tions of the excavation and findings. Bodies Gold: Tall Tales and TrueHistory from a CaliforniaMining Town, byMarguerite Sprague (UniversityofNevada Press,Reno and LasVegas, 2003. Photographs, map, notes, references, index. 248 pages. $34.95 cloth.) Bodie, California, reached itspopulation peak in the late 1870s and early 1880swith nearly ten thousand residents, more than sixty saloons and dance halls, and a reputation as one of the wildest towns in the West. Rather than focus on themining history of the area, Sprague's book examines lifein the town ofBodie and attempts to setthe record straighton a number ofpopular local legends. Letters To theEditor: Recently a neighbor gave me a copy of the Summer 2003 Oregon Historical Quarterly (OHQ 104:2). Iwas stunned to see the picture of theTrask River on page 188with the caption which includes "... with the surrounding sage brush-dominated landscape,.. ."Apparently, the incorrectpicture was placed above the caption or the incorrect caption was placed below the picture. The Trask River begins on the western slopes of the Coast Range and flows to the Pacific Ocean. Annual rainfall from theCoast Range summit to the Pacific Ocean is over ninety inches. There are hundreds of species of flora in thisarea, but there isnot and never has been "sagebrush." Salal isn't sagebrush,which has a very distinctive odor. Even after the four Til lamook Burns (1933,1939,1945, and 1951), sage brush did not grow on thewestern slopes of the Coast Range. Ihave traveled from thebeginning to the end of theTrask River many times, and there is no sagebrush. I bring this to your attention because the journal of record forOregon History needs to be accurate. Dick Blum Tillamook, Oregon To theEditor: I received my spring Quarterly and am already about halfway through it.Then I got to the part with the photos (Sarah R. Caylor, "Peeling Off the Emulsion," OHQ 105:1).Very interesting. Unfortunately, thefirstone at Fifth and Morrision (p. 121)has thewrong caption information. It's definitely the corner of Fifth 344 OHQ vol. 105, no. 2 ...