Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Col. Thompson By Finn J.D. John The “Oregon Style” of newspaper journalism was already a thing in 1871, when upstart newspaper publisher William “Bud” Thompson got in his famous gunfight in downtown Roseburg. But until that day, the vicious personal attacks that characterized the “Oregon Style” had mostly involved the spilling of ink — not blood. On that late Monday morning on a corner in downtown Roseburg, that changed. The enemies meet The groundwork for the Roseburg Newspaper Shootout was laid when Thompson came to town in 1870, when h...
McKenzie River Reflections...
