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Articles from the November 4, 2013 edition


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  • Vigilantes went too far with murder of suspected rustler

    Nov 4, 2013

    Vigilantes By Finn J.D. John John Hawk’s neighbors had few good things to say about him. Nearly everyone agreed that he was the surliest, most unpleasant man they’d ever met. That, as much as anything else, was why he was about to die, on a cold, clear, moonlit night by the Lostine River in 1881. Hawk was 31 years old at the time, a native Oregonian born in 1850. He’d boldly gone deep into Nez Perce tribal lands and staked a claim, rather a dangerous thing to do in the days of Chief Joseph, and started ranching on Prairie Creek, three miles...

  • Learning to do whitewater

    Nov 4, 2013

    McKenzie River Reflections...