Henderson, George M.

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 industr...