Articles from the September 10, 2017 edition

Sep 10, 2017

“Young adventurers” laid groundwork for tourism Hand up VIDA: “About 1914 something kind of magical happened,” according to Randy Dersham, president of the McKenzie River Drift Boat Museum. The magic came about when log trucks replaced river drives as the most economical way of getting timber to sawmills combined with the creation of a graded road that drew recreationists up from Eugene who wanted to fish a pristine river. “The young men that were log drivers in the homesteads around here at the time started to guide around 1920,” Randy told th...