Lockley also authored many books which, like his articles, were largely about his travels and interviews with early settlers in the Willamette Valley.

It was said that he interviewed "bullwhackers, muleskinners, pioneers, prospectors, 49ers, Indian fighters, trappers, ex-barkeepers, authors, preachers, poets and near-poets".

[1] He also interviewed Thomas Edison, Booker T. Washington, Ezra Meeker, Woodrow Wilson, Count Tolstoy, General Hugh Scott, Harry Houdini,[2] and Jack London.

Once more I can see the stagecoach sweep by with its four horses, traveling at full speed -- I can see too, the long lines of freight wagons and Indians.

[3] From Oklahoma the family moved to Albany, New York as Fredric Lockley toured the eastern and mid-western United States as a lecturer.

[6][7] Upon the urging of his wife, Lockley moved to Pendleton, Oregon, in 1901, where he bought a 25% interest[8] in the Daily East Oregonian.

While Lockley wrote for the Oregon Journal for several years, his output tapered off as he spent more time on his books and with his family.

Lawrence Campbell Lockley lived to fight in World War I and graduate from the University of California, with a doctorate from Harvard.

In 1928, Hope Gans Lockley died and was buried at the Lone Fir Cemetery in Portland, Oregon, next to their daughter.