Richard H. Engeman is a Pacific Northwest historian and archivist who has specialized in working with historical photographs, maps, architectural plans and drawings, and paper ephemera. "The Oregon Companion: an Historical Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious and the Arcane" (Timber Press, 2009) and "Eating It Up in Eden: the Oregon Century Farm & Ranch Cookbook" (White House Grocery Press, 2009) are his most recent works. He is also the author of an award-winning unit of the Oregon Historical Society's online Oregon History Project, "Wooden Beams and Railroad Ties: the History of Oregon's Built Environment."