Movin’ to the High Country In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps built a U.S. Forest Service ranger station near Bridgeport, California. In 1962, the service moved it to Nevada’s Reese River Valley. In 2008, the building was relocated to Bend, Oregon—and in July, the renovated station reopened there as part of the High Desert Museum. The museum’s Curator of Western History Bob Boyd and volunteer Les Joslin, who actually worked in the station in 1962, led the effort. Other folks pro

October 2009
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- Gary Ernest Smith
- Heading for the Hills
- Famed Forty-Fours Shoot Again
- Following Charlie Russell’s Paintbrush
- River Rock Oasis
- Chinese Food Anyone?
- Preservation: An Artistic Renovation
- The Apache Cupid
- The Boot Seen Round The World
- An Awful Time for Children
- Journey of Hope and Prosperity
- Hauntings in the West
- Slaughter
- Did ID cards exist in the Old West?
- How did Indians break horses, as opposed to the cowboy way?
- Is it true that Wyatt Earp killed only one man in Dodge City, Kansas?
- What is the story behind the folk song “Tom Dooley?”
- I was disappointed to learn Log of a Cowboy was a work of fiction.