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103. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
103. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle

103. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle

Artist (American, born 1937)
Date1999–2003
Period20th-21st century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsMat Size: 14 x 18 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
Object number2006.026.103
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
104. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
104. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.104
Horse and Saddle
Horse and Saddle
Anonymous (Chinese)
618–907, Tang dynasty
Object number: 2006.036
Image Not Available for Donkey Saddle
Donkey Saddle
Anonymous (Ethiopian)
c. 1963
Object number: 1991.020
Boat-Shaped or Saddle-Mouth Jar
Boat-Shaped or Saddle-Mouth Jar
Anonymous (Chinese)
1100–900 B.C.E., Siwa culture
Object number: 2004.018
Horse and Saddle
Horse and Saddle
Anonymous (Chinese)
618–907, Tang dynasty
Object number: 2006.037
119. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
119. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.119
118. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
118. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.118
113. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
113. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.113
114. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
114. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.114
115. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
115. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.115
117. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
117. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.117
120. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
120. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.120