Historians, hikers meet to share information on L.O. Trigg
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[People interested in preserving L.O. Trigg's legacy of promoting the Shawnee Hills are invited to the Saline Creek Pioneer Village and Museum's Pauper House 7 p.m. Feb. 8 to share information.
Some are interested in information contained in Trigg's "Ozark News" newspaper reports from the annual Ozark Tours he hosted. Some are interested in landmarks he wrote about that few remember today. Some may have attended the tours and can help answer questions.
Charles Hammond of Eldorado over the past several years has been scanning photos and collecting information on Trigg. He knows at least two trunks of Trigg material Trigg's son, Kenneth, kept in his basement were ruined. Trigg's granddaughter, Janet Davis, has made all of her material available.
Hammond has heard there were early home movies made of the tours and would like to know if that film is still in existence.
Hammond began organizing and preserving digitally photographs from the early 1900s of Dr. W.S. Swan several years ago and realized then there were landmarks in what is now the Shawnee National Forest that have been forgotten.
"From doing the Dr. Swan photographs there was stuff they wanted to see that we don't see anymore," Hammond said.
He has information from eight of the 19 annual tours Trigg led starting in 1931. Bill Farley took over the tours upon Trigg's death. He believes a man named Bob Hill may have taken some of the photos during the Ozark Tours, but has been unable to locate him.
Hammond knows there are resources on Trigg in the area and there is interest. He believes the meeting will bring those interests together and hopes to get some people with first-hand memories of the tours at the meeting.
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