Tuesday Feb 7 | OregonLive.com
Cycle Oregon 2012 will roll through Southern Oregon on 25th anniversary journey
Jaden Ratledge , 6, Jeremy Smith , 6, and Nathan Ratledge , 6, ring cow bells welcoming cyclists to the finish line of the last day's ride as Cycle Oregon 2011 ended its week long journey back in Sutherlin, Oregon last September.
T.V. and the movies have given us several iconic images that most of us think of as symbols of the Old West: covered wagons, cowboys and Indians, sagebrush and rugged vistas, and the stage coach.
When the Japanese bombed Oregon with a balloon
It's a bird It's a plane It's a killer balloon ! Though seemingly innocuous, the paper balloons launched by the Japanese during World War Two were anything but; the fearsome globes known as "Fu-Go" were filled with a pair of five-kilogram explosives meant to set America's west coast lethally alight.