Title: Bert Gamble, 1887-1974
Description: This is a broadside poster, rather than a book.  It was done as a tribute to my uncle, Bert Gamble, and has Bert's poems and the tribute poem.  My Uncle's book is:  "Days of Yesterday and Songs of the Palouse Country" by Bert Gamble.  It was published in 1954 by Metropolitan Press, Portland, Oregon.  Some copies still emerge in used book stores.  Several Libraries have copies.  One copy is in the Harry Truman Library, a gift from Bert, and acknowledged by a letter from the President.  The book contains about 80 of the more than 1500 poems written by him up to 1954.  He was born in 1887 and composed his first poem at age 4.  He continued writing until his death in 1954, so the number of poems he wrote far exceeded 1500.  He is my mentor.  My tribute to him begins:  My Uncle had a way with words, The simple ones you've heard.  But Woven well and intertwined, So they illuminate the mind.  ...  David Wahl