Murder in Linn County, Oregon

Murder in Linn County, Oregon

Author: Cory Frye

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016-08-08

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1625857934

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This true crime account of a Prohibition liquor raid gone wrong illuminates “a dark and violent stretch in Linn County history” (Corvallis Gazette-Times). On June 21, 1922, Linn County sheriff Charles Kendall and Reverend Roy Healy drove out to the town of Plainview to arrest a moonshining farmer named Dave West. By the end of the day, all three men were dead. First responders found Sheriff Kendall facedown with his pistol still holstered. The court appointed William Dunlap as the new sheriff, but within a year, someone killed him, too. Author and journalist Cory Frye delivers a riveting, detailed account of these shocking and tragic crimes that haunted Linn County for decades. Includes photos!


Pioneering Death

Pioneering Death

Author: Peter Boag

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2022-05-24

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0295749997

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On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society and revealed the burdens of pioneer narratives boys of the time inherited. In Pioneering Death, Peter Boag examines the Brownsville parricide as an allegory for the destabilizing transitions within the rural United States at the end of the nineteenth century. While pioneer families celebrated and memorialized founders of western white settler society, their children faced a present and future in frightening decline. Connecting a fascinating true-crime story with the broader forces that produced the murders, Boag uncovers how Loyd's violent acts reflected the brutality of American colonizing efforts, the anxieties of global capitalism, and the buried traumas of childhood in the American West.


The Calapooia River Murders

The Calapooia River Murders

Author: Ramona M. Clawson

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-05-22

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781533414847

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The Calapooia Murders is about a series of murders that take place in Sweet Home Oregon. There is a serial killer among them and the body count continues to rise as detectives try to solve these murders. The latest murder has them puzzled because there is little evidence and they're afraid he will kill again if they don't find solid evidence about these gruesome murders. Time is running out for them, will they find the killer before he strikes again?


Oregon Ferries

Oregon Ferries

Author: Charles Floyd Query

Publisher: chuck query

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 0892882913

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" ... history of over five hundred ferries that have plied Oregon's rivers and bays. This book contains the location of each ferry, the dates of operation and owners, historical notes and over thirty photographs. A complete source list and a copy of the 1846 laws governing ferry licenses ..."--Page 4 of cover.