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 fiancé as he tried to overtake them.

Kidnapped, On Oregon's Coast Highway (1926)

Literature & Fiction

Blakely, Joe R.

Genre Fiction

CraneDance Publications

in 1938, residents of Eugene, Oregon, faced 25% unemployment. In spite of that, the community rose up and built Civic Stadium, the town’s biggest WPA project. This book tells the story of how Civic was built and how it impacted the community of Eugene. From the heroics of the first muddy football game, to glimpses of the popular Lumbermen’s baseball teams, to the expulsion of baseball by disgruntled College Hill residents, and to Eugene’s only baseball team in the Pacific Coast League, Eugene’s Civic Stadium, From Muddy Football Games to Professional Baseball not only covers the history of Civic Stadium, but the evolution of professional baseball in Eugene. Now, Civic Stadium faces an uncertain future.

Eugene's Civic Stadium: From Muddy Football Games to Professional Baseball

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

In the 1930's basketball was a different game. After each goal was another center jump. It slowed the game tilting the outcome to the school with the tallest players. Still, one of Oregon's smallest schools went to the state playoffs anyway. With just eight players, the smallest team in the tournament, at Willamette University, in Salem, Oregon, in 1937, Bellfountain took on and defeated the largest schools in the state. It is a story of coaching and inspiration. They did the impossible and lifted the spirits of a depression weary Oregon.

The Bellfountain Giant Killers: The Story of a Small Oregon High School and its Miraculous Championship Season

Basketball

This book chronicles the building of the Oregon coast highway. Many black and white illustrations.

Lifting Oregon Out of the Mud: Building the Oregon Coast Highway

History

Americas

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.

Building Oregon's Coast Highway 1936-1966: Straightening Curves and Uncorking Bottlenecks

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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.

The Heirloom: A Novel

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.

Eugene's Civic Stadium

Historical Study & Educational Resources

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.

Oswald West: Governor of Oregon 1911-1915

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.

Rebellion, Murder and the Pulitzer Prize

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Kidnapped, On Oregon's Coast Highway (1926)

Eugene's Civic Stadium: From Muddy Football Games to Professional Baseball

The Bellfountain Giant Killers: The Story of a Small Oregon High School and its Miraculous Championship Season

Lifting Oregon Out of the Mud: Building the Oregon Coast Highway

Building Oregon's Coast Highway 1936-1966: Straightening Curves and Uncorking Bottlenecks

The Heirloom: A Novel

Lifting Oregon Out of the Mud: Building the Oregon Coast Highway

Eugene's Civic Stadium

Oswald West: Governor of Oregon 1911-1915

Rebellion, Murder and the Pulitzer Prize