By Mike Berry A Rough Character – In the early days, The Bend Bulletin would list the out-of-town guests staying at the various lodgings in the city. These “At the Hotels” columns indicate that in the late nineteen-teens an occasional visitor to...
In the fall of 1923, trapper and horse packer Ed Nichols was hired by Bend logging contractor Ed Logan to tend to Logan’s Little Lava Lake fur farm through the winter. Nichols was joined by two friends, Dewey Morris and Roy Wilson, both loggers from Bend. Little did...