Did you see this? William Compton/Will Thompson Archives book ?

[owlbait]

Just reread the article in the Compton magazine and it seems Will Thompson's name was substituted twice for Will Compton's. Is this the same article that was going in the archive book? Was it caught before printing?
Did anyone else read this article? I'm curious as to if I misread it.

[owlbait]

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[Liquid Amber]

I read it and noticed.  Stuff happens.  

In a round about manner I provided the article on Will Compton in Compton's first issue.  Glenn St. Charles called me and asked to use the article I had written for Stickbow.  I gave him the ok since he and Joe St. Charles had been mighty generous providing me information whenever I asked.  Somehow between Glenn's phone call and publication my name became separated from the article.  Marv Cochran gave me proper credit in a later issue.  It's still posted in the History Section of Stickbow for any who may have an interest.

There isn't a great deal of information on Compton and you will find similarity between the article Joe St. Charles wrote for TBM, my article from Stickbow and the first issue of "A Walk in the Woods" and the couple T.j. wrote later.  The reason is simply that we all have mined the same limited material and parallels are unavoidable.  

Fred Asbell asked me last year about the stuff I had on Compton and I donated a copy of every published reference, information and article I had in my files on the Chief for Compton's archives.  He told me about the new information contained in T.J.'s article and I was pleased to see it published for those who have an interest.  I believe there is more uncovered history on the Chief and hope it finds it's way to Compton and updated material published on him as it is acquired.

[owlbait]

Absolutey! Thanks for contributing info. I had no idea "Chief" Compton was born in Michigan. Kinda makes sense that the Compton rendevous is in Michigan