C. H. Stout: Backtracking on Old Trails (Clarence Howard Stout) (Memoirs of Alberta Journalist‪)‬

In the ninetieth of his ninety-three years Clarence Howard Stout got down to something many are urged to do, some intend to do, and a few actually do; he wrote his memoirs. With his late start he couldn't pause to reflect or revise and stayed at his typewriter pounding through 200,000 words in the mode of the journalist he had been--newspaper editor in Edmonton (1908-28), Calgary (1928-39), and pioneer of radio news on CFCN Calgary (1939-53). The unedited text is, in effect, the draft of a book, a rich catalogue of events, personalities, and impressions of his time, a succession of reporter's stories--who, what, where, when, and why--a resource for a writer seeking the feel of any topic in the time of C. H. Stout, for purposes of fact or fiction. The memoirs are deposited at the University of Alberta, and a few printed copies were distributed to family and friends in 1974 under the title, "Backtrack."