Scene on Pine Creek Road (Harney County) in Eastern Oregon.
Courtesy: Oregon State Archives

Western Stories by Kerby Jackson

Western Fiction by Kerby Jackson

Skookum - Sheriff Lloyd Brackett sure has his hands full. He's feeling his age and having to track down an escaped prisoner through the Rogue River's Hellgate Canyon.

Back Trail - Jim Blake had been watching his back trail for years, but he never even saw the kid coming.

The Troubled Land (novel excerpt) - Ken Payne is a retired gunman seeking a new start, but when he stumbles onto a group of murdered cowboys in Oregon's Owhyee Country, he's thrown head first into a full blown range war that is bound to force him to pick up his gun again.

Vengeance on Althouse Creek (novel excerpt) - All hell breaks loose when Chance Love returns from California to his boyhood home seeking revenge for his slain family.

The Tarnished Star (novel excerpt) -  When Jim Nelson comes back home to visit his brother for the first time in five years, he finds that things have definitely changed while he was away.
 
 

Oregon's Biggest Gold Nugget - In 1859, Mattie Collins found one hell of a hunk of gold on the East Fork of Althouse Creek in Josephine County, Oregon.

Chinook Jargon: The Language of the Old Oregon Country - Prior to 1900, over 50,000 people living in the Pacific Northwest spoke a language other than English that originated in this region. Though now very much hidden, Chinook Jargon is still very much alive.
 

William Stewart and the Origin of American Mining Laws - These were Kerby's speaking notes for a short presentation he gave for the Douglas County Prospectors annual Gold and Treasure Show held at Roseburg, Oregon in February of 2010. At the time, he was also introducing talk show host and mining activist Hal Anthony who was giving an in depth presentation on American Mining Law and the Rights of Miners.

Woman Miners in Southern Oregon? - Not everyone who worked the gold fields back in the day was "one of the boys", as this rare article from 1904 attests. With notes about some famous lady prospectors, as well as some added information on the mines mentioned.

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