Category: Oregon
Lawen, Oregon
Lawen, Oregon, along with other Oregon towns like Buchanan, looked back to a time when people...
Read MoreCrane, Oregon
Crane, Oregon sized up its reasons for cautious optimism. They struck her as a hedged bet. If...
Read MoreDiamond, Oregon
Diamond, Oregon sat up straight and paid attention. Maybe it was too late. But a few stubborn...
Read MoreOakridge, Oregon
Oakridge, Oregon danced through the night, lost in festivities so unlikely the mountain lions...
Read MorePrinceton, Oregon
Princeton, Oregon trembled. Evil was returning, racing back on a night train from Reno. Cecile...
Read MoreJohn Day, Oregon
John Day, Oregon declined the invitation. It was not a town to excessively mourn. In a tight...
Read MoreBuchanan, Oregon
Buchanan, Oregon didn’t see many rockhounds showing up anymore. Coveted thundereggs they sought...
Read MoreLong Creek, Oregon
Long Creek, Oregon bends toward the warm sunlight and listens to a faraway baseball game on a...
Read MoreNorth Powder, Oregon
North Powder, Oregon made out fine until the icehouse burned down back in the thirties. Blocks of...
Read MoreToppin Creek
Toppin Creek ripples like a nightgown through Malheur County in southeast Oregon. He still hadn’t...
Read MoreStanfield, Oregon
Stanfield, Oregon just up and vanished. Seven storms crashed through and turned the place into a...
Read MoreHermiston, Oregon
Hermiston, Oregon didn’t even exist back then. First they had to dig out the canal, 26 miles long,...
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