Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Wooding up By Finn J.D. John Just before Christmas in 1871, little steamboat called the U.S. Grant came to grief on the legendary Columbia River Bar, as had dozens before, and as would hundreds after. What makes the U.S. Grant’s demise unusual is that it wasn’t trying to cross the bar. It had been set adrift in the middle of a dark and stormy night to drift helplessly onto a raging bar, with its two owners on board. Whether that happened accidentally or deliberately, we can’t know for sure, but it’s at least a possibility that it was done on...
