Author Biography
George M. Henderson was born August 19, 1915, on a showplace Indiana farm. His mother, Verlinda Miller, was a frontier aristocrat and his father, Ben Wymond Henderson, a Montana lumberman. Most of his first 30 years were spent in the mountains as a youngster in Montana and Idaho logging camps, as a Forest Service lookout and smoke chaser in Oregon, as a pioneer in the early development of skiing on Mount Hood, and as an outdoor writer and ski columnist. George served three years in the in the Merchant Marine during World War II, and after the war, worked for 30 years in the banking industry, eventually becoming Executive Vice President of First National Bank of Oregon. After retiring from that job at age 65, he spent 16 years as President of the Oregon Independent College Foundation. George and Janice Himmelwright were married in 1952 and had four daughters and one son, all living in Oregon.
