Synopses & Reviews
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressInteresting people and places and their stories are sprinkled throughout this conversational narrative that gives the reader a taste of the spirit of Oregon's people.
Review
"The author has a feeling for nostalgia and has diligently searched out the sources of folk tales with a historic slant. When he has nothing more solid on which to hang a narrative, he traces it to a tombstone, usually in a lost graveyard." Lucile McDonald, Seattle Times
About the Author
A Chicagoan by birth, Ralph Friedman first saw Oregon at the age of seventeen after hitchhiking and riding boxcars across the country. He has written on every state and continent except Antarctica — but Oregon is his major interest.