Ebbert Webber

However, while teaching, Webber had noticed a lack of publications on Northwestern history. After a while, he therefore switched careers to writing and research about this and related topics, writing or cowriting (often with his wife) a total of 86 books between 1967 and 2003, on topics such as the Oregon Trail, Japanese attacks on the Northwest during World War II, the Oregon coast and other features of Northwestern history such as the DeAutremont attempted train robbery and the rise and decline of Bayocean. He established Webb Research Group - Publishers, and its companion book distribution company Pacific Northwest Books Company.

Health problems from his time in the Army forced a transfer to Spokane, Washington, in 1960, where he could get appropriate care at a Veterans' Administration hospital. Never having used his GI bill education benefits, the opportunity to formally study journalism at Whitworth College near Spokane arose and he took full advantage of it. He graduated in June, 1965, with a BS degree in journalism and secondary education., and followed this with a master's degree in library science (research) from the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon which he gained in 1968. While studying for the latter, he was also teaching Pacific Northwest History at Waluga Junior High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon and started publishing articles about the Pacific Northwest. He then moved south to become a school librarian in Medford, Oregon.

In 1955, "Webber Photo Supply" business closed and Webber went to work selling office equipment for Remington Rand in Seattle. He was transferred to Lewiston, Idaho.

He married Marjorie Jean Renfroe (born 1923) in Seattle, Washington, on July 9, 1944. The couple had four children. Webber set up "Webber Photo Supply" shop in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. The original scope of the shop was to provide contract professional photography services throughout the region as well as retail of cameras, consumable photography supplies, negative developing and printing. During this period, he was also a stringer for the Seattle Post Intelligencer

Ebbert True "Bert" Webber (22 October 1921 - 25 March 2006) was an American research photojournalist, author and publisher whose work concentrated on the history of the Pacific Northwest.

Webber was the eldest son of Matthew Ebbert Webber and Mary Elizabeth True. Born October 22, 1921, at Edgewood Arsenel, Maryland, he lived briefly in St. Louis, Missouri, but the family migrated to San Francisco, California, where they settled permanently.