From the devastating 1936 fire in Bandon, Oregon to the building of the Columbia River Bridge in 1966 this story charts the epic journey of building Oregon's spectacular coast highway across a steep basalt cliff, through Arch Cape, bridging Thomas Creek gorge and leveling mountains. When finished the highway had closed the last gap in U.S. Highway 101 from the Canadian border to Mexico.

A historical novel about the travels of a team of journalists up the Oregon Coast Highway during its construction in 1926, and their stalking by the woman's former fiance as he tried to overtake them."

A novel set in Bandon, Oregon, in the 1920s about the historic Nestle condensed milk factory, loggers and moonshiners, the Coast Guard and a wild sea adventure around Cape Horn.

Oswald West, Oregon's rascally one-term governor, wrote historic legislation in 1913 that set aside Oregon's beaches as Oregon's first coast highway. By 1919, building began in earnest and moved the highway east of the beaches and punched it through four hundred miles of the most rugged and remote terrain on the continent. This breathtaking story concludes in 1936 with an array of five stunning bridges designed by Oregon's premier architect, Conde B. McCullough and resulted in creating one of the most spectacular coastal highways in the world.

In 1938, residents of Eugene, Oregon, faced twenty-five percent unemployment. In spite of that, the entire community rose up and built Civic Stadium, the town's biggest WPA project. From the heroics of the first muddy football game, to the popular Lumbermen's baseball teams, to Eugene's participation in the historic Pacific Coast League, this story ends with the placement of the stadium on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

In 1939, the University of Oregon roused the Pacific Northwest from the hardships of the Great Depression as its basketball team, known as the "Tall Firs," took on an defeated Ohio State in the first ever NCAA basketball championship.

This well researched biography of Oswald West brings to life the daring Oregon governor who tracked down criminals, closed down the lawless town of Copperfield, Oregon by pitting his diminutive private secretary Fern Hobbs against gun-toting saloon owners, saved the state's beaches from developers, and won women the right to vote.

Llewellyn Banks, the so-called dictator, tried to take over the Medford and Jackson County government in 1933. The chaos he created climaxed when he murdered the popular Medford Constable, George Prescott. This sensational trial was moved from Medford to Eugene, Oregon. It pitted the most respected lawyers in the state against each other. As the trial unfolds, so does the story of the Jackson County Rebellion.

In the 1950s small town semi-pro baseball ignited in popularity and blazed across our country like no other sport in history. Two teams epitomized this exciting era: The Drain Black Sox of Oregon and Alpine Cowboys of Texas. When these two teams collided for the national semi-pro championship in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, it produced one of the most rip-roaring games ever played in semi-pro history. Outfielder, Dan Luby said, "it was magic."

A security guard gets swept back in time from 1995 to 1876 and witnesses the first day of school at the University of Oregon. The ghostly encounters take place in Deady Hall the oldest building on the university's campus.