Jon Humboldt Gates

Jon Humboldt Gates is a fifth-generation native of Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. His great-great-grandparents came West by wagon train during the California Gold Rush in 1849, and his grandfather was a miner in the Klondike Gold Rush, near Dawson City, in 1900. Jon, who has lived most of his life in Humboldt County, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest, has been a travel writer, historian, musician, story teller, business journalist, and co-founder of the...See more

Jon Humboldt Gates is a fifth-generation native of Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. His great-great-grandparents came West by wagon train during the California Gold Rush in 1849, and his grandfather was a miner in the Klondike Gold Rush, near Dawson City, in 1900. Jon, who has lived most of his life in Humboldt County, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest, has been a travel writer, historian, musician, story teller, business journalist, and co-founder of the international market research firm OTR Global. He and his wife now live near the Columbia River in Oregon. See less