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This is an episode in our weekly series titled 'Primary Source Tuesday.' Each Tuesday we have a reading from a particularly interesting historical item. Sometimes it's a historical tidbit that wasn't quite beefy enough to make a full column out of; other times, an especially interesting old newspaper article; frequently it's a short story from one of the frontier literary magazines that thrived in Oregon at the end of the 19th century. Today it's the transcript of an April 1938 interview by WPA (Works Progress Administration) writer Andrew C. Sherbert with Capt. W.H. Hembree, a former riverboat captain, sailor, firefighter, and gold prospector. (To read the interview and associated materials, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001950/ or Google "Library of Congress Hembree")