Jerry Rohde is an historian and ethnographer. Having lived in, hiked through, and studied northwestern California for over 25 years, Jerry Rohde has been described as knowing Humboldt County “like the back of his hand.” Rohde has also conducted research in Sonoma, Mendocino, Del Norte, Siskiyou, Trinity, and Shasta counties, and is one of the few experts on the history of Klamath County, the only county ever established in California that no longer exists. Rohde’s work is known for: 1) extensive library and archival research, including the study of the unpublished field notes of such ethnographers as Alfred L. Kroeber, John Peabody Harrington, Pliny Earle Goddard, and C. Hart Merriam; 2) detailed field observation that makes extensive use of historical maps; 3) a clear, comprehensive, and interesting writing style that has been honed in the authoring of five books. For the last decade, Rohde has supplied local, state, federal, and tribal organizations with documents ranging from community history overviews to Indian geographical summaries to museum display text. The quality of Rohde’s ethnographic and historical reports can be summarized in three words: “readable and reliable.”